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It’s days like today that I am so glad I own a crock pot. This afternoon when I walked in from playing in the dirt all morning, a batch of homemade white bean chicken chili was waiting for me. And all I had to do was find a bowl. I’m sure you can tell by Read More >>
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Now that I am spending my days outside digging in the dirt, I’ve noticed my clothes are taking a little bit more of a beating. And while it’s just dirt, glorious dirt, it reminds me of when The Girl and Monkey Boy were little–a day in the dirt meant a few more challenges in the Read More >>
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It was a fantastic week in the reclaimed foods department at my local market. Fantastic! We were able to salvage: 2 personal watermelons 2 cantaloupes 3 heads of lettuce 1 banana 8 apples 3 pears 6 pounds of potatoes Wahoooo! Talk about a nice variety of free food. The chickens were pretty happy with their Read More >>
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I used a can of cream of chicken soup today for the first time in my life. How weird is that? Had it not been for my recent bartering session with Francisco, I probably would have gone my entire life with using it. I made a batch of creamy chicken noodle soup for dinner tonight Read More >>
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This year, I’ve decided to crank it up a notch in the composting department. Growing 4000 lbs of fresh produce is going to require that I really think about my soil. In the words of the movie Uncle Buck, I am going to start “cooking our garbage”–all of those wasted food scraps {that are too Read More >>
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