We eat beans in one form or another on most days of the week. Black beans, lentils, pinto beans, red beans, garbanzo beans; you name it. I find them to be a great friend to the large family table on a budget. They are inexpensive but they can get boring or even hard to eat…
I actually had to go back and look at the date of my last post to see how old these birds are. It turns out it’s been just about a month since our last update and things have definitely changed. The first major change is that we got netting up over the whole chicken run….
I wrote this last year but wasn’t ready to hit publish… until now. Leaving certain ways of thinking, living, and doing behind since moving off-grid has in many ways freed me from constraints I never knew I had and blind spots I simply could not see. It’s easier to see the messed up when you’re…
There were times when I thought we would never grow anything here in this climate of extremes. Seasons seemed foreign at best, nonexistent in the hardest of years. It would take years to build soil, I told myself, and found it to be true when we only really started making a dent in our food…
