PEOPLE Staffers Share the Tips, Tricks and Products They Used to Become More Eco-friendly This Year - PEOPLE

"This is the year I became an amateur doomsday prepper. I invested in a generator, as well as a decent backstock of canned goods, and of course toilet paper. But the biggest change came when my husband Freddy and I decided to move our family from the huge media commuter town of Montclair, New Jersey, a little farther out, where suburbs start giving way to farmland. We’re growing our own fruits and vegetables, making jam, keeping bees (though, like straight out of a cartoon, a bear came in the middle of the night and ate all the honey last fall), and, most recently, keeping chickens and ducks. It’s not totally easy … all those nature-inspired clichés turn out to be based on real things: pecking orders exist, foxes really do try to get into the hen house … But we’ve finally got the hang of it and I hope my daughters Tatjana, 6, and twins Ofelia and Indira, 3, will learn some kind of life lesson they wouldn’t have otherwise, every time I have them throw a cup of dried worms in for the chickens."

— Charlotte Triggs, Managing Editor, People Digital

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