Category: local living
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what i’ve learned from a year with chickens
A year ago today I picked up five baby chicks from Egg|Plant Urban Farm Supply and excitedly brought them home. Being the reader and researcher that I am, I knew…
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valentine
While Valentine’s Day has become quite the commercial Hallmark holiday, in our house it is truly a day to celebrate love. This year, we started the day with a delicious…
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meal planning
This past fall was a hard semester for me. I constantly felt behind–like several weeks behind. While these feelings mostly came from work related things, they blended over into my home…
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organic
A few weeks ago, I starting writing about how our eating habits have changed a bit over the past year and a half (healthy bodies, happy lives and food, real…
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walls filled with books
I’ve always kind of had an obsession with books. I love them. I love how neat and organized the words are on each page. I love the designs on the…
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stocking-up on squash
View fullsize It’s that time! The winter squash are coming in and I love it! There’s nothing quite like filling the basement pantry shelves with food that needs absolutely no…
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soup…for later
Hello, friends! It’s been so long since I’ve posted and I’ve been missing this space–and missing the regular creating that normally happens in my house. My kitchen and house are…
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summer squash & oatmeal muffins
Last week I decided to experiment with using summer squash, rather than zucchini, to bake with. Up at my dad’s house this summer, we planted a decent sized plot of…
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putting up summer’s goodness
View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize The past week has been filled with quite a bit of canning and preserving!…
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pickles, please
My favorite food is pickles. That’s what I say whenever I play those silly icebreaker games when you have to tell people your favorite food as a way of somehow…