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Clean the World Recycles Soap Donated by Hotels & B&Bs

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

Washing Berries in a Vinegar Wash

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 for Bird and Breakfast

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

Light up with Wine Bottles

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

Eco Friendly B&B Doesn’t Choose Paper or Plastic

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

Big Mill Wins Top 10 Eco-Friendly Inns Award!

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

Cast Beeswax Ornaments

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

Big Mill Clothesline and the Washington Post

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