We have solar on the family room roof of our house which we installed in 2012 through Solarize Harvard. We added ground source heat pumps in 2018.  Since ground source uses electricity we wanted to add more solar but there was no more good facing roof and too many trees. Though our heat pump heats our water, we found in the spring and fall, when the heat pump is off because we neither need heat or air conditioning, the back up oil burner was going on to heat the water. Solution - solar hot water heater.  It needs only 2 or 3 panels to make enough hot water and we had room for that in a place that will get enough sun.  Inexpensive by comparison to eveything else we have done and break even in about 10 - 12 years or sooner based on the price of oil and electricity

A friend recommended this compost tumbler to us and it has been fantastic.  I think we've been using this for over 10 years. It is made by Mantis, called the Mantis Compost-Twin. It turns easily with a handle on the side, has large 2 bins so you can be filling one while the other is 'finishing'. Very sturdy. I've never been happy with other types of composters, but this one is great. 

One of our favorite local farms is Old Frog Pond Farm. It's an annual tradition for us to pick raspberries there, but sometimes we stop by the farm stand too!

When I built this home in 2017 I chose lighting that would support LED bulbs.  I only have one antique lamp that I inherited that still uses an incandescent bulb--but I rarely turn it on!

We were fortunate enough to move into a home in Harvard that already had a wonderful garden and composting system. We never composted before moving to town, but now it is part of our regular routine. We use our 'seasoned' compost to fertilize the soil in our garden in the spring. This is the beginning of hopefully many other efforts we plan to take to reduce our carbon footprint/reduce waste. 

We transformed a big section of the front lawn to a vegetable garden when we moved in. We grow more than we can eat in the summer and fall, so we end up freezing and canning a lot of it for winter.