I am thrilled to introduce you to Tracy from Oh, The Things We’ll Make! Tracy is an incredibly creative Mama who is continuously coming up with new and inventive ways to celebrate life on a daily basis! From her five minute pouch, to her handmade soap, her can-do DIY attitude is incredibly inspiring. Additionally, Tracy has a deep love for…
-
-
Welcome to our third Local Bite Mini Challenge! Your challenge this week is to create an entire meal using only locally sourced items! Now, don’t panic! I know we’re still early in the challenge and there’s not a lot growing in certain areas. For just this reason, you can pick any meal you’d like; breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Your meal…
-
Echinacea, also known as the Purple Coneflower, is a perennial flower that is known for its beauty and medicinal purposes alike. When in full bloom, Echinacea will attract both butterflies and bees and will make you want to spend countless hours in the garden watching all of the action! In the fall, while you wait for the seed heads to…
-
I am a very detail oriented person who leans towards being quite black and white about things under stress. I like things to be as perfect as possible whenever possible. It’s a challenge I’ve been working to overcome for a long time now. I am a work in progress. Honestly, this week can be broken down into a single word:…
-
Last weekend, in celebration of the warm days, the extended forecast (no hard freezes in the foreseeable future) and the inspiration to sow some seeds, we finally got outside for a couple of hours, cleaned up a few of the beds, and pushed the first seeds of 2014 into soil! There are still many beds to get for the season,…
-
One of the hardest parts about keeping laying hens is the act of culling them. Hands down. No matter how intentionally we began on this path of keeping chickens or how many times we think about or talk about the process, it just doesn’t get any easier. I know I have said this before, but I do believe that this…
