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Homeschool Worries, Wendy’s Nuggets, and the Search for Balance.
I really love homeschooling my son. We’re doing it for a variety of reasons, the chief of which being that I don’t want his childhood to be consumed by the drudgery of school/homework/weekend cycles. I...
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Rainbow Ferment!
I have to apologize for my recent fermentation kick. I went a couple months without fermenting much of anything, but spring has renewed my efforts. I don’t know what it is about warmer weather, but it...
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Unplugged Update
If you remember, I issued myself an “Unplugged Parenting” challenge a few weeks back. I promised to turn off the screen and social media unless my kids were taking a nap or having quiet time. I’m a...
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The Ultimate Garden Planning & Seed Starting Guide
Let me be honest. Deep down inside, I am NOT a green thumb. I love spending time in the garden. I’ve gardened for years- even as a teenager, under the direction of my gardening mother.But I truly...
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Spring Has Sprung! (An Update)
It’s officially spring, but it doesn’t feel like it too much this morning. I shivered my way over to the goat field for milking, and found all the animal waters frozen. Sigh. But I probably shouldn’t...
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9 Ways (and counting…) to Save Money on Organic Food
This post has been updated to (hopefully) give you real-foodists even more helpful ideas to save money. It contains affiliate links- that means if you make a purchase through a link, I get a small...
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Things I Didn’t Know About Rabbits
Maybe you’ve been dreaming of having fuzzy bunny pets. Or maybe, like us, you’re on the start of a meat rabbit venture. But, as with any new animal, we’ve been surprised by some of the rabbit habits we...
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How to Make Kombucha
“What is kombucha?” ask many of my inquisitive visitors. They’re inquiring about the jars sitting on my countertop filled with brown liquid and unidentifiable floating clumps. Now, in my world,...
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Wild Dandelion Quiche
I love, love, love foraging for wild greens from spring til fall. It makes my heart so happy to hunt for backyard edibles, then use them in delicious recipes that unknowing tasters think are delicious....
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Gardening Like a Ninja! (Book Review)
A beautifully landscaped front yard is a wonder to behold– flowers in complementary colors, trees and shrubs in staggered heights and textures, gorgeous ground coves, and appealing borders… ahh, is...
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In My Other Life
I wonder what the neighbors think, I thought as I sat cross-legged in my yard, my hair pinned up in twists on top of my head, foraging a colander full of dandelions for meals. I carried my weedish...
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Meat Eaters Against Treating Poor Animals Like Meat
We, the coalition, Meat Eaters Against Treating Poor Animals Like Meat (hereafter referred to as MEATPALM), are ready to take a stand. You heard us. We eat meat. But we can’t stomach the idea of you...
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My Backyard Grocery Store
I’ve always been mildly obsessed with the idea of doing everything from scratch. Perhaps it was all those hours playing Oregon Trail as a middle schooler. (Anyone from my generation remember that?)...
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Beneath the Sun (Saturday Song)
I keep promising that I’m going to make our music part of this blog. School’s out, the hubby is home, our home studio is built, and we’re finally at a point that I can start making posting our songs...
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Let Your Kids Do Real Work
We live in a society that seems to keeps kids separated from the real world and the responsibilities that come therein. We expect that kids will want their toys, their tv, their friends, and their...
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Purple Soup!
“V, what do you want to do for your birthday this year?” I asked my soon-to-be three year old. “I want to have a pahty,” she replied. (Naturally.) “What kind of party?” “Ummm… a puhple pahty! At a...
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Water’s Edge (Saturday Song)
As promised a couple of weeks ago, I’m posting another Saturday Song. I’ll let the music do most of the talking. All you need to know is that this song is an expression of, in my husband’s words, “a...
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The Best Parts of June
Father’s Day: We celebrated with four families at our house on a sunny, humid, Pennsylvanian afternoon. Tim fired up the mud oven and I gloried in the delicious sights and smells of a roaring wood fire...
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How to Ferment Rhurbarb (+ Probiotic Rhubarb Lemonade Recipe)
Rhubarb pie in the summer Rhubarb pie made by my mother Nothing better in the winter Than rhubarb pie after dinner! There you go. Now you, too, can sing this song to yourself repeatedly when rhubarb...
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Garlic-Fennel Radish Butter
Radishes! We just harvested a bumper crop of these ruby beauties last week. There are few ways I really enjoy eating my radishes: roasted radishes, fermented radish pickles, and this glorious creation:...
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