Recycling has many faces. Big Mill B&B saves used soap for Clean the World. At Big Mill we just can’t waste or throw anything away that might have a second life. Recycling soap is such a good idea! Big Mill B&B saves used soap and sends it to Clean the World; they are the world’s… Read more about recycling soap
Green-Friendly Tips
Does washing berries in a vinegar wash keep them fresh longer? Everyone has an opinion. I think you should at least give it a try, then decide. I know the vinegar wash works for me, but then I think white vinegar is “gold.” We use it here at Big Mill B&B for an eco-friendly cleaning… Read more
Innkeeper’s Suet Recipe Our special Earth Day gift to birds here at Big Mill Bird & Breakfast Earth Day is just around the corner, so it seemed like a perfect time to celebrate the birds we love with a suet recipe they delight in eating. When I am cooking for the bed and breakfast guests… Click here for Suet Recipe for the BIrds
It’s magic — those tiny lights that twinkle in wine bottles at Big Mill Big Mill Bed & Breakfast The idea is really simple: just drill a hole in a glass bottle and push the lights in. Guests here at Big Mill Bed & Breakfast ask me all the time, “How do you do it?” … Read more
What do we do? Those thin plastic bags, called white pollution, are killing sea creatures and cluttering our beaches. I remember walking the beach on the Pamlico River and seeing hundreds of plastic bags hanging from cypress trees; these were the bags that would end up in our rivers and eventually pose a threat to sea… Read more
Not one to toot my own horn, I just have to share this good news. Big Mill B&B has been singled out as one of the Top 10 earth-friendly inns by BedandBreakfast.com. And we are the only North Carolina Bed and Breakfast to make the cut. WOW! Of course, it was wonderful to be acknowledged… Read more
I saw my first Brown Bag Cookie Mold in the early eighties in a tiny shop in Virginia Highlands, a small Yuppie neighborhood in Atlanta, where I was living. This love affair has never ended. I have St. Nicholas from the 1983 collection, which was the first year they were made. The Brown Bag name comes from… Read more
I hear Going Green is now trendy and it is high time. Yes, we hang our sheets on the clothesline. Big Mill Bed & Breakfast has been Green long before the rest of the world noticed. But they notice now! In May the Washington Post ran a story on Eco-friendly Inns and used a photo… Read more
