Welcome to our tenth Local Bite Mini Challenge! Can you believe we’ve been at this for 2 1/2 months? Amazing, right?! Up until now we’ve focused mostly on food items, but there’s no way I could leave out one of my favorite things ever: Beverages!! So, your challenge this week is to swap out one beverage that you drink often or…
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Today marks the midway point of two of my three current challenges so I thought it would be the perfect time to let you all know how I’m doing! Here goes: Blogathon – I have to admit that, while I have actually posted every day so far this month (even a couple of times on a couple of days), there…
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Have you ever seen rhubarb flowers? They usually show up on established rhubarb in the spring and they are gorgeous. Gorgeous and harmful, unfortunately. We encountered our first rhubarb flowers a few years ago and, not knowing what it was or what to do about it, we turned to one of our favorite books. According to John Seymour’s The Self Sufficient…
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Today’s Local Perspective comes from Erin at Blue Yurt Farms! Erin and her husband Mike have become a huge inspiration for me as my Partner and I assess how we want to move forward in our journey towards an even more sustainable lifestyle. I joke often about selling it all, picking up and taking off in search of a nice…
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Welcome to our ninth Local Bite Mini Challenge! This week we are focusing on Food Origins. By now, we’ve all heard the statistic that the average meal in the U.S. travels an average of 1500 miles from farm to table (please enlighten me if you have the stats for your own country). This fact is incredibly sobering to me and was…
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We had our first real strawberry harvest late last week! After a very long day at work, when I was ready to, literally, get in bed by 7:00, Kim found them and called me outside. Is there a better way to cap off such a day than with 10 ounces of juicy, ripe, gorgeously red strawberries? It’s amazing how wonderful a…
