Guess What I Have!

Barnyard

Lily has something to share…. Translation: “I’m stuck in the stupid pen because of THESE!”

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Homeschool Freebie II: Burgess BIRD Book Images

Z

  I just added The Burgess Bird Book images to my homeschool website. If you’ve used this book, you know how crucial it is to have coloring pages for the little kids, or at the very least smaller images to be colored and pasted into notebooks.  If you or anyone you know is interested in [...]

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Book Giveaway: The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm

Reviews

I don’t know the exact moment when I began to question, well, not everything, but a lot about what we buy and put in or on our bodies. It may have its earliest beginnings way back, before some of you readers can remember, to the Tylenol debacle. For those of you who are too young [...]

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Homeschool Freebie: Burgess Animal Book Images

Z

I just spend ALL DAY putting together all the images for the Burgess Animal Book!  I…am…cross-eyed! If you’ve used this book, you know how crucial it is to have coloring pages for the little kids, or at the very least smaller images to be colored and pasted into notebooks.  If you or anyone you know [...]

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More City Chickens

Barnyard

As we remarked in, I think chapter one of our book, the town of Mouscron, Belgium, adopted a chicken solution to their household waste problem. It’s happened again, this time in France. Officials in the town of Pince, population 200, a village in northwestern France, said the idea first began as “une boutade,” (a witty [...]

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Crockpot “Hollandaise” Roast Chicken

Main Dishes

Crockpot “Hollandaise” Chicken one hen, icky gibblet bag removed salt (and/or preferred seasoning blend) Aluminum foil 3-6 egg YOLKS 1-2T lemon juice pinch salt possible extra slosh of olive oil or wad of butter if you can have it 1.  Place rinsed, dried hen in crockpot, breast side up, on a big enough wad of [...]

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Practically Green: Keeping Organic Lawn Tall Fights Nasty Weeds

Garden

  Last year, I started using natural lawn care for my yard. Since I was pregnant, I chose to use a service rather than do it myself. The TruNatural service from TruGreen rounds up the usual suspects for organic lawn care: bone meal, feather meal, blood meal, manure, corn gluten and natural minerals. On the [...]

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Peas, If You Please

Garden

The edible cover crop I planted last winter has exceeded expectations in terms of . . . AAAAGH!!! WE’RE COVERED IN PEAS!!! Peas, peas, and yes, peas. Fava beans, biomaster peas, yellow peas, and sugar snap peas. Is there such a thing as a 150% germination rate? I think so. When I say peas, though, [...]

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Free Great Growth Webinar!

Beginner Gardens

In this nine- minute recorded module, we talk about choosing plants that will thrive in your area, versus those that *could* grow in your area .  Go see!    It’s free!

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Hard Cheese

Home Preserving

The title of this post sounds like I’m telling someone to get over it, and while I do have reason to say words to that effect on a regular basis (she said nyah nyah to me!, she wooked at me!), I did literally make hard cheese for the first time this week. I chose to [...]

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