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A big THANK YOU to everyone who has sent in their photographs and stories. I hope by sharing other peoples pictures and stories here on One Hundred Dollars a Month we can all have a rock star garden this summer. Keep them coming! Check out these photos Sylvia, a semi-retired Early Childhood Special Education teacher living in Read More >>
I don’t know what the weather was like at your place yesterday, but holy cow, the sun shined all day up here in the Pacific Northwest. I spent most of the afternoon in the greenhouse starting my squash seeds. Normally I want until May 15th or so to plant my zucchini and cucumbers and around Read More >>
One thing I’ve learned over the past few years as I’ve whittled my family’s grocery budget down from $800 a month {2008} to $100 a month {since 2010} is that there are specific times of year when groceries, household items and other goods go on sale. Just because a certain fruit or vegetable isn’t in season in Read More >>
{Spring 2009} In spring of 2008 we built the house we live in now. Over the summer, I created our first garden bed {12’x20′} and filled it will tons of tomato, cucumber and zucchini plants. Even though we had moved to a wooded neighborhood, it still never occurred to me the deer who roamed freely up and Read More >>
In the summertime when the zucchinis and tomatoes are plentiful, we will saute whatever we can gather from the backyard garden, add a few eggs and serve it up for breakfast. In the winter, it’s a lot harder to make a fresh vegetable scramble for next to nothing. Unless of course you have a Mr. Read More >>
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