• Eat

    Turkey Stew (AKA Leftover Heaven)

    If you celebrated Thanksgiving two days ago and are anything like me, you’re probably tired of all the leftover potatoes and turkey and such!  We even tried to plan better this year and cook less than last year…but alas…we still have leftovers!   It’s OK, though, because one of my…

  • Eat - Food Storage & Preservation

    A Half of a Cow

    Well, we’ve gone and done it.  We’ve invested in a half of a cow. Holy moly. After last January’s purchase of a quarter of a cow, we decided to move forward and move up in the ordering department.  So, about 2 months ago, we placed our order with D&R Ranch again…

  • Bees & Pollinators - Eat

    Brie, Bees and Baguettes

    I have found my new favorite snack!!! Brie, bees and baguettes!  OK, maybe not bees, but that delicious golden stuff they produce 😉 While in Milwaukee over last weekend visiting my very best friend, we stopped in this little restaurant and had some apps and wine.  The app was so…

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    Harvest Swap

    Last weekend, Tool Lady and I attended our very first Harvest Swap!  It was based on the framework of the Food Swap Network and was hosted by the Radical Homemakers of New Mexico (Erin and Kyce)! Although there were instructions given, neither of us had ever attended anything like this before so we really didn’t…

  • Bees & Pollinators - Eat

    Sweet Golden Honey

    Bees amaze me.  Absolutely. When we checked on our bees in the spring, we were able to see that they had officially made it through the winter and were healthy.  They had the same queen that they came to us with (marked with a little dot on her back and…

  • Eat - Grow - Harvest - Prepare

    Independence Days

    Happy Friday, everyone!!! I’ve continued to hope that the warm weather will stick around and have been slowly transplanting hardened off veggies into either the ground or their permanent pots.  I have to continuously fight the urge to put everything in the ground right now, but we are very close!…

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    Independence Days

    Happy Friday, everyone! Plant something: The weather has been absolutely amazing and while I’d like to believe that we’re well into the warm months, I have to remind myself that it really is still possible for us to get a frost or even a snow storm.  Given this, I’m still…

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    Independence days

    Do you ever have one of those weeks that simply escapes you?  Yeah…I’ve had one of those weeks.  Not really sure where the time went…homework…regular work…life in general…yada yada yada.  Luckily though, at the end of the week, now that I add it all up, I can remember that I…