Join Mavis Butterfield for vegetable gardening and canning tips, easy recipes, and saving money strategies (Rug hooking, too!). Simple living at its best!
A strange thing happened at the Boston airport {besides the part about the HH deciding we had to be there 6 hours before our flight was due to take off}. I made a grocery list. A really, really long grocery list. Idle hands, and sleep deprivation do not go well together. Here are the groceries we purchased when we came home Read More >>
Books, Books, and More Books from Amazon.com Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life See You in a Hundred Years: Discover One Young Family’s Search for a Simpler Life Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100 Mile Diet Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Read More >>
{Summer 2012} This year I’m on a mission to grow 4,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables in my suburban backyard. In 2012 I was able to grow 2,028 pounds, and in 2013 I’m going double or nothing. I have absolutely no idea if I’ll be able to achieve my goal. But, as with any adventure, half the fun is getting there. ~Mavis Read More >>
This week there were 2 boxes of chicken scraps to pick up from Mr. Produce Guy. At first glance I wasn’t sure there would be much to reclaim. But after I lifted up the bags of grapes and knew I had hit the jackpot. Mama Mia! Holy tomatoes batman! We did have to toss a Read More >>
Last week was really weird. I barely left the house. On Monday I picked up 40 pounds of chicken from Zaycon and spent an entire afternoon and a good part of the next day cooking and processing the meat. When The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird found out we were getting a boatload of chicken, she immediately requested Read More >>
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