A year ago, at an amazing vegan cheese making class in Vancouver, BC, I tasted kombucha for the first time. It was chai flavored and seriously delicious, and I was…
For the Love of Dried Bananas!
I had stopped on Saturday at our local Amish grocery store to pick up some birdseed and left with a good deal on that, plus a really good deal on…
A New Cold Frame Joins the Family
The cold frame we had years ago deteriorated to the point it could no longer be used so I’d been searching for something to replace it for quite some time….
The Zero Grocery Challenge Update
Jack and I were both happy with how well the Zero Grocery Challenge went for us during January! I think what surprised me the most was how much food we…
Books on the Shelf: January 2020
Jack and I are both readers and spend great swaths of time each week absorbed in books. We keep a book in the car to be read aloud by whichever…
Home Sweet Home…
Contrary to the logic of some, now that all of our children are adults and living on their own, we decided to build an addition onto the house. Our plans…
Hats!
Over the past early winter weeks, there was a lot of hat-making going on at our house. In the end, nearly all the females in our family received one for…
The Happy Surprise!
I had headed out to deliver the latest addition of scraps to the compost and happened to peek into one of the raised beds where the early, hard killing frost…
The Zero Grocery Challenge
For the past year, we have been on a mission to more diligently shop first in our pantry, refrigerator, and freezer when meal planning, and then purchase what is needed…
Seed Catalogs!
Over the past several weeks garden seed catalogs have been showing up in our mailbox and I have set them aside in their basket until after the holidays when I…