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Local Bite Mini Challenge ::: Week Ten ::: Swap One Beverage

Local Bite Mini Challenge ::: Week Ten ::: Swap One Beverage

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…
June 16, 2014
Local Perspective – Blue Yurt Farms

Local Perspective – Blue Yurt Farms

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…
June 10, 2014
Local Bite Mini Challenge ::: Week Nine ::: Food Origins

Local Bite Mini Challenge ::: Week Nine ::: Food Origins

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…
June 9, 2014
Local Bite Food Independence Potluck

Local Bite Food Independence Potluck

Alright friends, whether you've been participating in our big Local Bite Challenge or not, now's the time to get excited! Why? Because you are formally invited to host or attend your very own Food Independence Potluck!  That's right, we are planning a Potluck for everyone all around the world! (That's a lot of food, right?) Could you just, for one…
June 6, 2014
Crabby Pants & the Magic of Nature

Crabby Pants & the Magic of Nature

As someone who has a degree in Environmental Education...and as someone who has spent the last decade working with children...I know that time spent in nature is incredibly beneficial for children. It's good for all of us, but it seems to help children out of a funk almost immediately. So why, then, am I finding it so hard to remember…
June 5, 2014
Local Perspective – The Faulk Farmstead

Local Perspective – The Faulk Farmstead

I am very pleased to introduce you to my very good friend, Mel from The Faulk Farmstand as our Local Perspective today! Mel is living the next step on our dream towards a more self sufficient life by keeping the most adorable goats imaginable! Need I say more? OK, OK! ;-) Mel is constantly inspiring me to try just a…
June 3, 2014