by Ivory Soap | Jun 11, 2009 | Main Dishes, Recipes
Here’s a tasty way to use my new favorite vegetable: chard. Tear off a chunk of rustic bread to help soak up the broth. Chard Soup with Gnocchi serves 4-6 1 T. olive oil 1 medium onion, chopped 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms pinch red...
by Daisy | Jun 9, 2009 | Crafts, Knitting
These are sort of fingertip wash mitts. Compared to the big, luxury mitts they dry more quickly and don’t drip as much while washing at the sink–you know that drip down to the elbows? The textured stitch makes for good scrubbiness. They measure about 4...
by Ivory Soap | Jun 5, 2009 | Household, Simple & Frugal
People are made to depend on other people. Yes, you *can* do it all on your own, but that’s not really feasible or preferable in most cases. Isolation is not the goal. A community of people all doing things the old fashioned way broadens our ability to live...
by Ivory Soap | Jun 4, 2009 | Garden, Permaculture
picture by Julie Interplanting sounds fancy, but it just means planting different things together. Like, instead of planting only corn, you planted spinach in between the corn stalks. And the corn shades heat-hating spinach from the hot summer sun. That would be the...
by Daisy | Jun 1, 2009 | Beginner Gardens, Garden
Start reading about tomato pests and diseases and you begin to wonder how any tomato ever makes it at all. After weeks of episodic rain my tomato plants are growing like kudzu, but I noticed something this morning that sent me looking for fungicide recipes: yellowing...
