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Have you given zucchini to everyone you know {ie. the mailman, your pastor, the unsuspecting person in line behind you in the grocery store}? Have you resorted to stealth “Operation Zucchini Drops” on your neighbor’s porch in the cover of darkness? Have you made zucchini bread so many times your poor kids have started faking Read More >>
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Tonight I’m on my own, so I am going to check out Earth Voice, Food Choice. It popped up as a suggested movie for me on Amazon, and looks pretty interesting. It is a documentary/lecture that talks about our reliance on air, water, and dirt–and how we are destroying it with our modern day practices. Read More >>
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If you haven’t guessed already, I love vacation photos. Over the years, we have gone quite a few places, and even though it seems excessive while I am snapping the pictures, the whole family loves to look back at them all. I love having little reminders of the places and faces. Taking great photos is Read More >>
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{Photo Credit Journal-News/Pavel Slepicka} One Hundred Dollars a Month reader Andrew was just featured in his local Hillsboro, Illinois paper, The Journal News for his amazing straw bale garden he planted 3 months ago in his grandparents backyard. The above picture features Andrew standing in front of his nearly five-and-a-half foot tall tomato plants. But he’s not Read More >>
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Rain is in the forecast again for today so last night I went out and harvested a few fruits and vegetables so I could take the day off from gardening and work on getting ready for our trip to Memphis. If you’ve never had real, homegrown strawberries before, you need to put them on your Read More >>
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I spotted this recipe for Mediterranean barley salad in the online edition of L. A. Times and thought it looked pretty tasty. Lucky for me my neighbor Hulda had a jar of capers and we had some kalamata olives in the cupboard so I was able to make it. It was a little different from the Read More >>
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August is bittersweet for me. It’s the last month of summer vacation for the kids {which is both a welcome relief and a little sad, for me at least}. It’s also supposed to be the lazy days of summer, but if you’re on a mission to garden, there’s nothing lazy about it. This month while you’re Read More >>
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The Girl and I spent this morning rounding up all garden gnomes from every nook and cranny in our backyard garden. No stone, leaf, or pallet was left unturned. As of this morning we have collected a whopping 460 gnomes and $231 in cash donations! This means that so far together we have raised $4,831 Read More >>
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