Join Mavis Butterfield for vegetable gardening and canning tips, easy recipes, and saving money strategies (Rug hooking, too!). Simple living at its best!
What’s up with all the free lettuce lately? To bad you can’t freeze the stuff, or I’d have a years supply of iceberg by now. Luckily, between our chickens, and Girly Girls Chickens, not a bit of it goes to waste. If there is one thing the chickens love {besides corn}, it’s iceberg lettuce, it must be Read More >>
Since school started over a month ago, I’m been using my crock pot about twice a week now for dinner time meals. And why wouldn’t I? The weather is getting colder, everyone is coming home at different times, and it’s so stinkin’ easy to take 5 minutes out of my day to toss a Read More >>
Hi, My name is Mavis and I like to feed my tomato plants with kale smoothies once a week. That’s how I get the plants to grow super strong. Life is wonderful. The birds are always chirping, our backyard chickens are always quite, and they lay hundreds of yummy nutritious eggs for us everyday, and I’m high Read More >>
Baby it’s cold outside! As I left this morning to do my grocery shopping, I noticed the temperature outdoors was 44 degrees. Wow! I guess I better set aside some time to harvest vegetables today. For those of you who are following my efforts to grow food in our greenhouse this year, I snapped a Read More >>
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier Little House in the Suburbs: Backyard farming and home skills for self-sufficient living The Complete Guide to Building Your Own Greenhouse Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables Grow Cook Eat Betty Crocker Cookbook: 1500 Recipes for the Way You Cook Today Best American Side Read More >>
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