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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.
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.
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.
Read more on Quitting The Busy Drug and Celebrating The Days of Simply Living…
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.
Read more on Homesteading, Part 4: Choosing Production over Consumption…
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?
Putting Food By Focus: Canning Tomatoes
Menu Planning During Preserving Season
Putting Food By Focus: Drying
How I Make Lacto-Fermented Salsa
Blessings...
Late Summer Vegetable Soup with Bacon, Garlic, and Thyme
This Week In My Kitchen
My Food Philosophy: Six Principles that Guide Common Sense Eating
Garlic Harvest
5 Tips For Making Great Lacto-Fermented Dill Pickles
