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.
Earlier this year when I mentioned that one of my goals was to read 12 books this year about the great state of Maine or from Maine authors, several people mentioned Maine author Elisabeth Ogilvie. And so I requested one of her books from the library. A few days later when the HH went to Read More >>
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Heavy rain was in the forecast a few days ago and so I thought it would be the PERFECT time to get started working my new lasagna garden in the field. And since building up a lasagna garden isn’t one of those projects you can accomplish in a few hours and be done with… I Read More >>
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On our way back from picking up our weekly loaf of bread from Head Tide Oven last week, we stopped by Beth’s Farm Market in Warren, Maine for the first time and whoa Nellie was it AWESOME! Seriously awesome. Hanging baskets galore, flower, veggie and herb starts in the greenhouse section off to the side Read More >>
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We have more cilantro than we can use right now {even after giving some away to the neighbors} and so rather than tossing the surplus onto the compost heap, I decided to dehydrate our extra cilantro in the oven last night to use later this winter in homemade soups and casseroles. If you have never Read More >>
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Three things came off the grill last week before I screamed NO MORE!!! Cheeseburgers with grilled onions. Fried rice with sugar snap peas and scallions from the garden. And steak fajitas {thanks JJ for the grass fed beef}. Homemade tortillas. Have you tried making them before? They are crazy easy to make and probably don’t Read More >>
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