Tag Archives: sustainability
I Should Have Known
Yes. I should have. I should have known that my ickiness the other day was my old friend. The period flu. What is up with that anyway? I’ve never heard of anyone else getting the flu for two days every … Continue reading
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Internal Homestead
What does homestead mean to you? A little ranch far from neighbors, with chickens and goats in the yard? Maybe a full-on farm with cows and fields of grain? Maybe homestead means to you a farm stand and a CSA? … Continue reading
Seasonal Cooking: Carrot Marmalade
(Don’t forget to enter my little giveaway here.) Carrot Marmalade is an old-fashioned recipe. I found it in my 1973 copy of Putting Food By. I’d never heard of such a thing. After I made it, and I offered Kevin … Continue reading
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Independence Days
Sharon hasn’t posted an Independence Days update in a while, but I’ve had some stuff going on that I wanted to share so I decided not to wait. You know I read her site, or her other blog, or Life … Continue reading
Perceived Obsolescence
Every since watching The Story of Stuff the other night, I’ve had the concept of perceived obsolescence on the brain. I keep seeing examples of it everywhere I look. I keep finding examples of it right in my own home. … Continue reading
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I want
An old house with history and character. And a harvest kitchen. A big fireplace. A root cellar. A big front porch with rocking chairs and a pretty view of mountains in the distance. Shelves filled with jars of jewel-toned summer … Continue reading
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The Story of Stuff
I stumbled on this link today. It’s a fun, very interesting, twenty-minute video about … well, about the story of stuff. Did you know that only 1 percent of the goods that American’s buy are still in use 6 months … Continue reading
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Making Do
I bought a couple of dollar-store thermometers and put them up in each of our unheated laundry rooms. (We rent both sides of a duplex, so we have two of everything.) I’d expected the rooms to be cold. Especially the … Continue reading
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What My Nana Knew
After I posted my WFMW entry last night, I got to thinking. I was super lucky to have my great-grandma, my Nana, until my late teens, and my grandma (her daughter) until my mid-20s. They were my mother’s grandmother and … Continue reading
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One Small Change
I love this. One of my favorite blogs is Openly Balanced. I read there today that Hip Mountain Mama is having a super cool to-do from January to Earth Day. That blog is encouraging people to make one small change … Continue reading
