• Grow

    Spring’s Beginnings

    A walk around the garden these days is a glorious and hopeful thing!  From the Apricot blossoms to the other fruit tree buds to the rhubarb, garlic and hops, the brown and grey of winter is slowly allowing for a few (a very few) colors to break through!  It’s such a hopeful and exciting time! I hope, no matter where…

  • Seed Starting 2014
    Grow,  Sow

    Seed Starting 2014

    With Spring officially upon us, it only makes sense that it would be time to begin the seed starting process! I have felt very behind in the seed starting area this spring, though really, I’m not behind where most people are, just behind my own idea of how far ahead I would like to get in the seed starting process…

  • infant emergency preparedness
    Prepare

    How to Be Prepared for an Emergency with an Infant

    Alright, so you have your EDC, your EDC Bag and your 72 hour emergency kit which will cover you and your partner in an emergency situation for a few days, but what can you do to be prepared for your infant if the shit hits the fan? As I’ve discussed in my previous preparedness posts, prepping is one of those…

  • Spring!!!
    Everything Else,  Grow

    Spring!!!

    With Spring officially upon us, I can feel the veil of winter slowly lifting off of me. Don’t get me wrong, I do love winter. I love all four seasons we get here for different reasons. Winter can provide a time of rest and reflection. This winter has allowed me to crawl inside of myself a bit, to reflect on…

  • Grind Your Own Wheat
    DIY,  Eat

    Got Wheat-Berries? Grind Your Own Flour!

    You know that saying about the best laid plans? Yeah…well, I think the Universe is trying to drill home some crazy message about how plans fall apart and new experiences arise and it’s OK to adapt and be flexible and try something new. The last year has been ripe with examples of such bumps in the road, closed doors and…

  • Corned Beef and Cabbage
    Eat,  Family

    Corned Beef and Cabbage

    There are those who can trace their ancestry back hundreds and hundreds of years.  I am not among them.  Yes, my maternal Grandmother’s father came over from Ireland when he was a child, but that’s all I’ve got beyond stories and jumbled memories from a childhood filled with a storyteller’s stories…you know, a mind that takes facts and turns them…