The best bottles are clean wine bottles with a cork A clear bottle shows off the mead, and will speed up ageing by a vast amount . leaveing in a 18 to 24 l. wine jug will slow down ageing and let more coomplex flavers to develop.Also how much honey you use ..More honey more time to age Ccorking tool is 25.00 to 70.00 at most home brew store in my area corks are cheap as is a onestep cleaner Cleanlyness and good brewing go toughter if you would like advice you can reah me at Dirtygene 11@AOL.com I will help to the best I can also will trade recpits Go gently

Pando Alliance is a good one. Link: http://pandoalliance.com/

You can find a list of energy auditors at https://baltimoreenergychallenge.org/city/baltimore/vendors#p-v=1&per-v=10&h-v=1753497166&s-v=s7.

Smart Homes (http://smarthomeservicesllc.com/) is a local business that will do energy audits for commercial or residential and they also do remodeling, new construction and solar installation.

Greenspring Energy has a great staff with trained and certified energy auditors. . .

Take a walk or ride to an empty parking lot (like when a library is closed)in what you feel is a fairly safe area.

Look up to the night sky for about 10 minutes or so.

One of the brightest lights in the sky is Jupiter.

Look at the moon with Jupiter nearby and imagine peace.

Then, go home, find more alone time and remember what you saw.

When everyone else is fighting for parking spaces, thank the
heavens for their open, vast beauty and solitude.

Ikea in White Marsh has bins for used printer cartridges, batteries and fluorescent bulbs, near the exit after you've passed the cash registers......

Please check out my website, www.beyondlawn.com. I've been designing ecologically-friendly residential gardens in the Baltimore area for several years. Louise Toby, ASLA

Check out www.goodearthgardeners.com
Owner really knows her stuff when it comes to designing a unique garden using native plants that can be maintained without applying nasty chemicals. Natural NOT boring! Also does rain garden installations. Does work in both Annapolis and Baltimore.

Ednor Gardens.

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