Today, I’m grateful for
all your wonderful emails and comments.
Grateful that I got to visit my grandmother last winter, and that she got a chance to meet Ella before passing away yesterday.  Grateful for her long life and many blessings.

Tiger Beans – saving seed to plant for next year’s shares

snowy fun at the Granary

Our new houseguest ...
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It’s recipe time folks.  Now that most of you who are shareholders have your shares in your kitchens (yay!), I’ll definitely be making more effort to share grain and bean recipes here.  Today, I want to first point you back to this baked beans recipe, which I really recommend for those of you who got ...
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(Ben’s preserved lemons-in-process: quartered, salted, smooshed into a jar, fermented 5-10 days at room temp, then put into the fridge.  The best part is you can use the whole lemon after it’s preserved, rind and all.)
It’s always incredible to me how hard the world can be, and also, how incredibly beautiful.  How thoughtless we can ...
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” I recently saw a video recorded secretly by a Humane Society investigator . . .that sparked the country’s largest-ever beef recall . . . as part of the USDA inspection process, cows must be able to walk under their own steam to slaughter as a precaution against their having, for example, mad cow disease ...
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First, I just want to say welcome to all the readers who came over from my interview swap with Heather of Shivaya Naturals.  I’m so glad you stopped by!  Usually I do a Gratitude Friday post, but since we had the fun interviews yesterday, let’s go for Gratitude Saturday.  Shall we?

Grateful for Solstice Bulbs still ...
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Today, we are so lucky to have a few moments to share with the incredible Heather, of Shivaya Naturals.  Heather and I did an interview swap this week – you’ll find her interview with me at her blog, Shivaya Naturals.

Heather and her family (a husband and two young sons Jacob and Elwood) live in Colorado, ...
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Alrighty folks – I managed to hustle and get this toddler skirt donated to Craft Hope for Haiti – it will be listed for sale in a few days in their Etsy shop here.  Sized for an 18 month old, made of super soft cotton flannel with hilarious chickens.
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I’m excited to join Hip Mountain Mama’s One Small Change project (and it’s very inspiring to see how many other folks are joining, too!).  For January, my change is to complete the weatherizing projects I started this winter, at last!  I already finished two of these draft snakes for our leaky windows, using some of ...
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Ok folks, for a refreshing change of pace let’s talk about food, shall we?  Excellent.
I’ve been diving into our grains and beans, and am really excited to share so many recipes with you over the coming months!  First up, the pudding with totally politically incorrect name  – Indian Pudding.  Call it Corn Maple Pudding if ...
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One rhythm I’m glad to return to: Gratitude Friday.  Because no matter how hard the week, there are always blessings, when we stop to remember them.
A rare morning where Ella happily gets up with Ben, leaving Mama to sleep in – bliss!
The delight of giving our CSA members their share of the 2009 harvest.
Returning to ...
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