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More CSA help
I’m always on the lookout for new recipes and ways to use the food from our CSA. It’s not much of a problem in July when tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, peppers…
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Burgers!
With the holiday weekend coming up, I thought an easy burger recipe was in order. We buy a half a pig from a family up in Kokomo every six months…
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Pressure cooker (beans)
My grandma bought me a pressure cooker as a wedding gift many moons ago. At first, I was very intimidated by the steam and feared that it might explode every…
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Fermenting
I recently spotted the Nourishing Traditions cookbook for forty percent off and picked it up immediately. Nourishing Traditions is the cooking “bible” for Weston A. Price aficionados. While I definitely don’t buy…
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Square Foot Gardening
I’m a huge proponent of square foot gardening. If someone asks me for advice about getting started on gardening, I always recommend they start with the square foot method. That’s…
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Thank goodness it’s Friday
Fridays during CSA season are like Christmas at our house. We are a drop-off site for our CSA (LIFE Farm), and our share usually gets here around 2pm or so.…
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Recommended
In honor of Mother’s Day, I reviewed two loosely related books for Englewood Review of Books: Radical Homemakers (which I’ve mentioned here previously), and The Missional Mom. Perhaps surprisingly, they both have…
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Wendell for Wednesday
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has set his mind decisively against what…
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Secrets to a High-Yield Vegetable Garden
I’ve been reading How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, and I highly recommend it. We have a…
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“sara bars”
Grant discovered the LÄRABAR a few years ago when he bought some for us for a day of hiking. We were quickly hooked. Once Jasper could eat real food, he…