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Shelly from Washington writes: I love your blog and as a fellow Washingtonian I wanted to share my coop with you! This is my first year with chickens and I am totally hooked. After about a year of fiddling with the idea of getting chickens I found a coop on craigslist that I loved, for Read More >>
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I’m obsessed with quinoa lately. I can’t get enough of it. I guess there are worse things to be obsessed with like Big Macs or something. Here is my latest and greatest favorite quinoa recipe: Ingredients 2 cups cooked quinoa {find quinoa online} 1 small onion, diced 1 sweet pepper, diced 3/4 cup dried apricots, Read More >>
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This year I’m on a mission to grow 4,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables in my suburban backyard. In 2012 I was able to grow 2,028 pounds, and in 2013 I’m going double or nothing. I have absolutely no idea if I’ll be able to achieve my goal. But, as with any adventure, half the fun is getting there. ~Mavis ******* It Read More >>
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I like having a sponge in the kitchen to clean up with, wash dishes, etc., but they can get kind of gross after awhile. They aren’t like dish cloths that you can just throw into the washer when they start to smell or get dirty. But I learned this little trick awhile ago, sanitize them Read More >>
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Yesterday I spent the afternoon outside cleaning up the plants in and around the greenhouse. I removed all the gutters I had installed in the spring and set them outside. I plan to re-plant the strawberries elsewhere, and then add the soil from the reaming gutters that held basil, peppers and chard to the compost pile. The Read More >>
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Chili is one of my favorite fall recipes to make because it’s so simple and such a warm fall-ish meal. It’s another recipe that’s perfect when life gets crazy around here with fall sports! But sometimes we get a little bored with regular chili, so I’m spicing things up with this recipe. Literally. Ingredients 2 Read More >>
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Have you heard of the whole geocaching craze? It’s basically an outdoor treasure hunt using GPS coordinates. Once you get the coordinates, and your job is to find a container that is hidden at that location. Unless it is a private geocache that you or a friend/family member has created, you don’t take the container, Read More >>
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Can you believe it’s nearly October and the garden is still producing awesome amounts for fruits and vegetables? We had a less than stellar summer here in the Western Washington and I keep thinking we are going to get hit with an early frost or some sort of wickedly bad weather any day now. I Read More >>
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