A MAGAZINE SERVING FAMILIES IN BUTTE, GLENN, SHASTA, SISKIYOU & TEHAMA COUNTIES SINCE 1993

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Students at the monthly BEC Cooking with Food Scraps workshop.

Butte Environmental Council: Advocating for a Healthy Community

By Shannon Lennan | March 11, 2024

Located in gorgeous Butte County, the Butte Environmental Council (BCE) is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the environmental health of Butte County. Supported by 300 members, over 1,000 […]

In the Zone with Green Loan Support

By Brianna Lee Keaney | March 11, 2024

Reduce, reuse and recycle are words most of us have heard since childhood. But for GreenLoan Support in Tehama County, it’s not just talk. GreenLoan Support means to make this […]

Food scraps that end up in the land fill impact our climate and our community.

It’s Time to Talk Trash

By Brianna Lee Keaney | September 12, 2023

We’ve all disposed of food scraps at some point, and if we bin them, we don’t usually think about what happens next. Here in California, over half of our trash […]