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The Growing Challenge: Let the harvest begin!
This year has been full of firsts in the vegetable garden. For starters, this is my first year gardening at our new home in Lyons. But I’ve also taken “the growing challenge” to try to grow some new...
View ArticlePreparing for our year of local
How can it possibly be August already? That leaves us less than 30 days to go to prepare for our year of eating locally. Granted, September is still harvest season here in Colorado, so it’s not like I...
View ArticleFood Preservation 101: Part 1 – Home Canning
A couple of folks have asked me for a quick how-to on making jam. I realized I couldn’t jump straight into recipes & tips until I covered some basics on canning itself. What is home canning and how...
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Food Preservation 101: Part 2 – Making Jam!
There is nothing sweeter than home-made jam. And that’s not because it has more sugar. It’s because the fruit is fresher, the jam is less processed, and, well, because making it yourself always makes...
View ArticleStudy confirms what we already know: Local is better!
Researchers at Cornell University released a study that confirms what we already knew: eating local is better for the planet and better for our health. The study found that the United States food...
View ArticleDivine retribution (or why God hates Monsanto)
I am not a scientist. That’s why I am sometimes amazed and appalled when a bunch of really, really intelligent PhD types do something like create genetically-modified Round-up resistant cotton and then...
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The Eat Local Challenge!
We have been immersed in preparation for our year of eating local and are happy to see The Eat Local Challenge blog join the mix of folks blogging about local eating adventures. The Eat Local Challenge...
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October, time to plant?!
For the first time I can remember, Matt & I (and, post-nap, the kids) did some fall clean-up in the yard in the fall instead of in late winter/early spring. It was a beautiful day, sunny and warm....
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Update on our local-eating adventure
In mid-September, our family began what has turned out to be a fun and educational adventure in local eating. After months of canning, drying, and freezing every fruit and vegetable we could get our...
View ArticleOne of the Fifty Million…
This weekend, I attended a talk by Kip Nash, a Boulder man who has turned many of the front yards in his neighborhood into farm plots as part of the Boulder Community Roots project. If the endless...
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