The flyer for the upcoming Green Cleaning workshop.
Whether you are looking for ways to be more environmentally friendly while keeping your kitchen and home clean, or you simply run out of cleaner and don’t want to make a trip to the store, the Stokes County Extension Service has a workshop coming up to help.
Green Cleaning is the name of the session, to be held July 23, from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Walnut Cove library. A flyer from the extension agency says those attending the class will be able to “learn how to make simple cleaners for your home.”
Savannah Moore, family and consumer sciences agent at the Stokes County Center, will be conducting the class.
“My background is in nutrition, but I’ve always been really interested in a safe and healthy home,” she said.
“Green cleaning is a lot like cooking from scratch really, we’ll go over what a healthy home is, some really simple recipes for cleaning products.”
Some basic examples of household products she said that can be used to make cleaning mixes include baking soda, lemon juice, vinegar, salt, and corn starch.
She did caution that the workshop would not show how to do all needed cleaning in a home.
“There is a difference between cleaning and disinfecting,” she said. “Cleaning is going to be more of your day-to-day things, with a basic all-purpose cleaner.”
The workshop will focus on these sorts of homemade cleaning mixtures — even some for specific uses such as floor cleaning, wood cleaning, even window cleaning.
“Anything needing deep cleaning, if you’re working with raw chicken, for instance, you will want to use a disinfectant, something harsher. This workshop is for your day to day use, it’s not going to replace everything.”
Still, she said, there will be plenty of uses for the products she will review.
“Some may want to just have a healthy home, others may be sensitive to certain chemicals or fragrances, and some may be interested in saving money,”she said of reasons to learn some of what she will be covering in the workshop. “And, it’s nice to know if I ever run out of something, I have the basic ingredients in my house to make a cleaner…to wipe off my counter.”
Most of the ingredients for the homemade cleaners, she said, “are fairly inexpensive, and a lot of times we already have them in our homes for other reasons.”
Recently, she said she put the knowledge to use in her own home, when she ran out of glass cleaner.
“So I made up one myself, using white vinegar, corn starch and warm water.”
Moore said she taught a similar session last year in a virtual setting, but this one will be in person.
“The virtual session went really well. I’m excited to do this in person. I think people are ready to get out and do things in person.”
She said the workshop, which begins at 10 a.m., should last about an hour, “depending on how many people come. If we have a large group, sometimes we get a little bit chatty,” which could push the session past the hour mark.
“I’m going to start off with a PowerPoint, talk about some of the basic information, history, principles of keeping a healthy and clean home.”
The second half of the gathering will be a demonstration of how to make cleaning products.
“How we do this will depend on how many come to the class. If we have a big group, it’s probably going to be mostly me doing it. But if it’s just a few folks, we may have some hands-on training.”
While the session is free, Moore said individuals should register in advance so she can have a good count on what supplies might be needed. Registration can be done online at go.ncsu.edu/stokes-green-cleaning
For more information, contact Moore at [email protected] or by phone at 336-593-8179.
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