Throughout Tool Lady’s pregnancy, we talked about all of the things we wanted to do for Sprout, for health reasons, environmental reasons and for economical reasons. We talked about making our own homemade baby wipe solution and cloth wipes, using cloth diapers and, in the future, making our own baby food (preferably from our own garden), to name just a…
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Garlic is, hands down, my favorite and most used spice! Whether it’s whole and roasted, chopped and simmered (or sauteed) or in powder form, it goes in pretty much everything savory I make in the kitchen! Who: I always purchase my seed garlic from either Seed Savers Exchange or our local Farmers Market and would recommend the same for you.…
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Well, we have just completed our very first fermentation project! With all of the Cayenne Peppers we grew this summer, I’ve been looking for ways to use them up and (like I mentioned a little while back), Andrea’s Homemade, Homegrown Cayenne Pepper Hot Sauce sounded like a perfect addition to our winter stores! Following Andrea‘s directions, I filled two pint jars with…
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I recently received the following comment on my DIY Dryer Maintenance post that read: “Wow, a dryer ? It’s always interesting to see how other “cultures” do things, I have never even owned one, a dryer that is. The clothes hang out on the line, the sun does it’s thing. No carbon pollution from burning electricity, no money spent…
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Over the years, I have found myself thinking about how much time I spend at work and how that relates to a variety of emergency scenarios. Fortunately for me, I work for an organization that provides after school and summer camp programs for kids, which means we have to be prepared for emergency situations. In the event of an emergency,…
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Hatch Chile is a staple here in New Mexico. We buy it in bulk in September from grocery stores or pop up vendors in parking lots throughout our cities and counties, pay a little extra to have it roasted on the spot, cart home our steaming hot plastic bags full of chile, spend hours and hours prepping it and then…
