No guilt watering

We're in a severe drought here in CA and I love my herbs and deck garden. So what's a fresh herb, garden loving gal going to do? Not waste water from the shower while it's getting hot, water from rinsing my veggies and fruit, plus water from rinsing out my coffee pot and coffee machine parts.

'Brown' water doesn't have to be gross or smelly. And it's amazing how much I would otherwise be wasting down the drain that is now used for my deck garden.

Fresh Sage is awesome!

Squeeze and freeze

Got citrus? I don't always think to grab lemons and limes when I'm at the store so having  juice in the freezer has come in handy on more than one occasion. Since I'm also thrifty, I never turn down gracious friends who share citrus fruit from their trees; one of the benefits of living in California. But citrus will parish so right now as I'm being given fresh Meyers lemons, I'm juicing and freezing. 

Another option, my sister's cousin freezes her lemons whole and than mircowaves to defrost them, then juices them. Take your pick, it's all juicy.