My Week on Wednesday and Compost
(modified from this image) Hello and welcome to another My Week on Wednesday! Did you miss me last week? We were on Spring Break, and while we didn’t go anywhere interesting, or even have all that...
View ArticleMy Week on Wednesday and Jam Recipes
Hello and welcome to another My Week on Wednesday! Now, some of you may know that I have a teeny-tiny jam-making problem. In that I LOVE to make jam and that I have a slightly unrealistic idea of how...
View ArticleMy Week on Wednesday and Earth Day
You have probably figured out by now that today is Earth Day! It’s a day when the entire world gets together to celebrate the Earth and to concentrate on taking care of the planet we live on....
View ArticleRhubarb: Recipes and Growing Tips
One of the things you learn from seasonal eating is to really appreciate the first fresh foods of spring. Of course, I do occasionally buy “fresh” produce at the grocery store, but the majority of the...
View Article9 Dinner Ideas (for when you don’t know What to Make for Dinner)
You know that feeling you get when it is getting on toward dinner time and you have NO idea what you’re going to make? Sometimes it’s a failure in creativity. Or motivation. Or maybe just grocery...
View Article26 Strawberry Recipes, plus Ways to Preserve Strawberries and Growing Tips
Around here strawberry season is short–if we’re lucky, maybe, it lasts for four weeks–so there is a lot of strawberry goodness that needs to be squeezed into that short time! It’s the time when I dust...
View ArticleEat Your Weeds!
The plants we think of as food usually come from grocery store shelves, or better yet, from tables at farmers’ markets. Or even better, from our neatly planted gardens. My point being, that the plants...
View ArticleCheese Recipes and Other Made from Milk Recipes
My Facebook Followers will know that on Monday I got an impromptu cheese-making lesson when I stopped in to visit a friend and found her a few minutes into making 30 Minute Mozzarella. In less than a...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know to Add Bees to Your Homestead
for more information, see the disclaimer at the bottom of this post “What do you know about bee keeping?” That is how my uncle greeted me the other day… and was the inspiration to writing this My Week...
View ArticleSourdough: A Guide to Everything you Need to Know
Since I first started learning about health and nutrition, one of the first things I wanted to make was sourdough bread. I thought, if I only had my very own sourdough starter, I could make wholesome...
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