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This past weekend was pretty awesome. On Sunday afternoon the Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I walked around the garden and cut bouquets of daffodil flowers. We ended up filling 3 vases and placed them around the house. I love, love, love this time of year! There is so much hope and promise in the air Read More >>
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Feeding my family for $100 a month means coming up with some pretty creative ways to save money at the grocery store. There are a ton of little ways to save a buck at the grocery store that can add up to BIG savings. Even if you’re just looking to shave a little off of Read More >>
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Last week I was pretty busy working in the garden and ended up doing all my grocery shopping in one day while I was out running errands. I LOVE it when that happens. Here is what I purchased last week: Harbor Greens Market – $5.28 Hopefully this is the last bag of potatoes I will Read More >>
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I stopped by Mrs. Hillbilly’s house this afternoon with some of my excess eggs. I’ve been craving homemade cookies for the last few days but I was down to my last stick of butter and needed more. I ended up trading 26 fresh eggs for 1 pound of butter. Mrs. HB needed eggs, I needed Read More >>
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Ever wonder what it would be like to dig up your entire front lawn and plant an edible garden instead? Check out this video of Josée Landry and Michel Beauchamp’s beautiful 2012 front yard kitchen garden in Drummondville, Quebec. {photo credit} There was actually a big controversy over the garden and the city had planned to make all front lawn Read More >>
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Week 12 of 52 – Mavis’ Backyard Garden Plot Although it rained quite a bit past week, I was still able to get a few projects done. We planted a boatload of new seeds as well as cleaned up the backyard and moved some more pots out of the garage. The spring bulbs are beginning to Read More >>
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Remember all those bananas I was able to get for free from the reclaimed food boxes Mr. Produce Guy gave me? Well a few days ago I whipped up a batch of whole wheat banana pancakes and holy cow they were good. The monkeys at my house were jumping on the bed they were so Read More >>
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My {camera shy} friend and I headed out early this morning to run/walk/jog {mostly walk} the Tacoma St. Patrick’s Day 10k race. There was a time limit of 1 hour 20 minutes, and without any training {except gardening} our only goal was to finish it before they started to tear down the road signs and Read More >>
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