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Last week, as I was picking up Monkey Boy from his Kung Fu lesson, I noticed several small wood pallets laying next to a large dumpster. Hmm. Who on earth would throw those out, I wondered. The parking lot full of moms sitting in their minivans. Do you think that stopped me? Nope. I grabbed Read More >>
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Earlier in the week I was given more free apples than we could eat. And since all of the apples had minor blemishes, I knew we needed to either eat the apples right away or figure out how to preserve them. So I did the first thing that came to mind. I made applesauce. The Read More >>
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Will you be getting chickens this year? Looking for a few housing options? Is money burning a hole in your pocket? Here are a few coops I think are pretty neat-o. Photo Credit Nogg: House your chickens in style for only £1,950 or $3,249. I love my chickens, but not that much. Photo Credit This Read More >>
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When life hands you more free vegetables than you can eat, make vegetable stock I say. Or at least that’s what I said yesterday when four boxes of produce were staring me in the face and I had no idea what to do with them. I’ve made chicken broth before but never vegetable broth. And Read More >>
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If you were wondering how much food I was able to salvage from the “chicken scraps” the other day… Here you go. Not only does Monkey Boy and The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird have enough veggies for their lunches this week, there’s enough for a stir fry dinner as well. I have 3 Read More >>
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Even though I spent a lot of time playing in the dirt this week, I still managed to squeeze in a few quick shopping trips. My favorite “shopping” trip last week wasn’t really shopping at all. I mean really, what normal person would consider picking up “chicken scraps shopping? I think it would be more Read More >>
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Yesterday, I collected another load of “chicken scraps.” This time there were 4 boxes. I almost fainted. The first thing that came to mind was, what’s wrong with the watermelon? What’s wrong with the carrots? And then it hit me. There was nothing wrong with them. It would just be to time consuming to pick Read More >>
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Here we are, the end of April and the backyard garden plot is finally starting to take shape. Just a few more weeks to go until I can plant my tomato starts and really start to see some progress from above. The recent cold weather has done wonders for the peas, broccoli and cabbage plants. Read More >>
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