By Shannon on July 22, 2010
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{from our garden: lettuce, potatoes, beets, onions, cilantro}
NOTE: Gardening and preserving is keeping me pretty busy these days. A few articles that bear repeating will fill in the gaps on the days when the to-do list is too long. This post was originally published in April 2009.
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By Shannon on June 14, 2010

If anyone knows a thing or two about squeezing the budget while eating nourishing foods it’s Kimi of The Nourishing Gourmet. She has launched an ecourse titled A Peasant’s Feast in which she shows you how to feed your family nourishing foods on a budget.
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By Shannon on June 4, 2010
I used to love being busy. Errands to run. People to meet. Things to do. Busy was like a drug. I had taken it for so many years that I felt I couldn’t live without it.
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By Shannon on October 7, 2009
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Previously in Homesteading:
In contemplating where I would turn to next in my homesteading series it hit me that one of the driving forces behind my own desire to homestead is a desire to produce and create rather than consume and throw away. I suspect that I am not alone amongst my fellow homesteader wannabes.
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Posted in simplifying & frugality, sustainability & gardening
By Shannon on September 1, 2009

Everywhere I go women are talking about balance. We have our spiritual life and husbands and small children and housework and gardens and crafting and reading and writing and blogging and cooking and… we could go on all day. Everyone tells me that I need to balance all of these things, but is that really possible?
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