Some couple friends of ours came over last week and the wife of the couple mentioned that a friend-of-a-friend was, “one of those organic people.” At this point I had to say, “Well, I roll pretty crunchy-granola, too, ya know.” “Yes,” my friend responded, “but you’re not – you know – one of those ‘organic’ [Continue Reading...]
Sharing The Good Stuff
October 27, 2011 by · 3 Comments
I’ve been tending to two sick kids all day, and now that they are in bed, I’ll be honest, an original blog post just ain’t happening tonight. What is happening is a nice bourbon on the rocks and some reading. So instead of trying to pull a blog post out of my ass, I will direct [Continue Reading...]
A Very Homestead Holiday
October 18, 2011 by · 17 Comments
I hate to be the bearer of exhausting news but the holiday season is right around the corner. Personally, I think it’s obscene to see Christmas wrapping paper and Halloween candy on display at the same time, but there it is. This is the world we live in. Image from Premier Packaging, shared via Creative [Continue Reading...]
The Rich Man, The Mormon Mom And The Dice Rolls Of Life
September 30, 2011 by · 8 Comments
This is not a political blog. Sometimes my political leanings (which can be summed up as, “leave people more or less alone and don’t be a raging asshole,”) probably poke up, like so many unnoticed weeds in the raised bed of my life. But I try not to focus on politics here, or in my [Continue Reading...]
The Kids Who Will Save The World
September 26, 2011 by · 3 Comments
You know how you read the newspaper (or whatever passes for a newspaper in your world – for me it’s the Google news homepage and my blog feed reader) and by the time your coffee is tepid you’ve discovered thirteen new ways in which The World Is Going To Hell In A Handbasket? Like most [Continue Reading...]
The Big Three: Anji’s Guide To Simple Food Storage Preparedness
September 22, 2011 by · 6 Comments
As I’ve put up the harvest and reorganizing my pantry, my mind has turned many times to food storage. Google Long Term Food Storage and some seriously hard core people pop up: you know, people with 5 gallon buckets of freeze-dried kumquats and fifty years worth of marshmallows and graham crackers under the bed so they [Continue Reading...]
Roadtrip! Peppers, Sun, And Locavorism
August 10, 2011 by · 5 Comments
Because summer refused to come to me this year, I went to summer. Yesterday I drove to Eastern Washington, a region as dissimilar from Western Washington from a gardening perspective as Iowa. I was visiting a friend and, for the first time, stomping around her garden. Lots of wind farms on the drive out. Eastern Washington [Continue Reading...]
Being Everyone
July 28, 2011 by · 22 Comments
A friend came up to me at a party. “So I’ve finally started reading your blog and now I totally feel like shit!” she joked. What my friend was really saying is that when she reads about No Spend Month, and keeping the garden, and cooking from scratch, she feels like maybe she should be doing that stuff [Continue Reading...]
Right Tool, Right Job, Right Technique, Your Technique
July 25, 2011 by · 7 Comments
One of my best friends is moving to the eastern side of Washington State, where much of the land is under agricultural production. She is joining her fiance, who happens to be a professional seed farmer, on their 5 acre rural plot of land. My friend, Kristen, is excited to have room to start a [Continue Reading...]
Q: Why Did The Chickens Cross The Road?
June 21, 2011 by · 6 Comments
A: To freak out my neighbors. Homebrew Husband and I go on approximately one date a month, if we’re lucky. Lately they’ve been less frequent, and have included our little guy, which does take some of the romance out of the mix. Anyway, last Friday was Date Night! We dropped our daughter off for an evening [Continue Reading...]
Let’s Call It A Vacation: The Mother Earth News Fair Getaway
June 6, 2011 by · 3 Comments
Homebrew Husband and I made a very last minute decision to attend the Mother Earth News Fair this past weekend. We weren’t going to brave the ride to the fair with our son, Young Mr. Screams-In-Car, but a combination of things came together late Friday that convinced us it would be worth attempting the hour-long drive. Chief among these was [Continue Reading...]
Support The Overthrow Of Consumerism For Only $25
June 2, 2011 by · 8 Comments
That title sounds facetious but I’m actually dead serious. Somebody has to get out there and stump for Harriet Fasenfest’s excellent DVD, Preserving with Friends, because she just won’t do it for herself. Harriet, whom you may know as the author of The Householder’s Guide to the Universe, is a contrarian urban agrarian, householder and [Continue Reading...]
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