She's a frugal mum enjoying a green Christmas!
A trio of savvy Leeds mums have found a way to make Christmas environmentally friendly and save money too.
Caroline says: “The children love it. We collected evergreen from the garden to make it more seasonal and I created ‘branches’ from bamboo. Caroline runs Leeds-based Abundant Edible Gardens, which creates green spaces for communities and businesses and teaches people to grow produce. She will harvest her own potatoes, carrots, sprouts and cabbage for a vegetarian Christmas dinner with partner Arun, 54, and kids Ash, three, and Amber, seven.
“The children still have a traditional paper advent calendar from my mum, and if we want new decorations we find them at the charity shop. They don’t know any differently and are just as happy.” She says: “During food rationing it was illegal to waste food but we’ve had an unprecedented period of boom and excess, and need to relearn old habits.”
Jane also makes gift wrap from old fabric and duvet covers, which she asks recipients to reuse or return.
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