I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.
Hello Saturday! Sunny and a high of 75 today here in Maine. 🙂 So hot, but not too hot. On the agenda for today: Pack up orders and ship them on out Unload the kiln {I made a batch of super cute mini ornaments!} Can another batch of salsa Get broccoli planted in the Read More >>
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Tomato season has finally arrived here in Maine and holy cannolis people, it’s AWESOME. 🙂 Lucy and I harvested over 50 pounds of {mostly} Roma and San Marzano tomatoes yesterday and as soon as I get my Etsy orders out this morning I’ll be starting up the outdoor camp stove and canning some salsa. The Read More >>
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One of my favorite parts about living in Maine, is all the roadside stands and quirky small businesses that seem to thrive here. It could be someone selling lobsters off their dock, cheesecake slices out of their garage, mittens off a picnic table on their front porch, fig filled pastries at the end of their Read More >>
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I love gardening, and I love preserving food {canning, freezing, dehydrating} so when I sat down to plan our garden for this year, I started with the idea of growing as many things as possible. Partly because I knew we loved eating fresh vegetables right out of the garden and partly because I knew that Read More >>
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It was a great week in the meal department here at Camp Butterfield. I was so busy working, weeding and harvesting vegetables from the garden that I didn’t even have time to do any grocery shopping. Not that I needed anything really. I did check the sale fliers, but I didn’t see anything I Read More >>
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