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Tonight The Girl and I are back on the documentary train. We will be watching The Greenhorns. It’s a film about the new generation of people who are committed to bringing sustainable agriculture back. I think it’s going to be one of those garden affirming sorts of movies, and who doesn’t love that? Let me Read More >>
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Yesterday I headed out the the garden with high expectations of harvesting a bumper crop of potatoes from our three potato towers {I’m saving the ones we having growing in the compost pile for this weekend}. I tried growing potatoes in towers and burlap sacks last year, but failed miserably because I had them in Read More >>
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I’ve been kinda obsessed with my Dutch oven lately. If you’d been at my house tasting all the creations I’ve made in it lately, you’d totally understand why. It’s awesome! So I thought the next logical thing to try in a Dutch oven is beef stew. I love stew and with the weather getting cooler, Read More >>
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The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I have been dreaming about taking another trip to London just as soon as we get enough points to earn a pair of free plane tickets again. One of our favorite parts about the city {besides all the cool museums, shops and food} is deciding how we are Read More >>
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Have you all seen the new Chipotle ad? It is dark and disturbingly telling. It exaggerates {kind of} the state of our food system and how removed we’ve become from our food–and HOW we get it. Whenever ads start to reflect a grass roots trend, I always take notice, because it seems like it’s an Read More >>
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Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh-what-a-relief-it-is {feel free to sing along}. That song always runs through my head whenever anyone mentions Alka Selter, but apparently Alka Seltzer provides more than just relief from indigestion. In fact, these fizzy little wonders can do all sorts of things. Here’s my 10 favorite alternative ways to use Alka Selzter: Read More >>
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Shelly from Washington writes: I love your blog and as a fellow Washingtonian I wanted to share my coop with you! This is my first year with chickens and I am totally hooked. After about a year of fiddling with the idea of getting chickens I found a coop on craigslist that I loved, for Read More >>
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I’m obsessed with quinoa lately. I can’t get enough of it. I guess there are worse things to be obsessed with like Big Macs or something. Here is my latest and greatest favorite quinoa recipe: Ingredients 2 cups cooked quinoa {find quinoa online} 1 small onion, diced 1 sweet pepper, diced 3/4 cup dried apricots, Read More >>
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