Planning For A Frugal and Fun Summer by Being Organized
Image Credit- Stuart Miles FreeDigitalPhotos.net If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you’d know that we homeschool our kids. Therefore, you might think that summer is no different than year round for us, in terms of being able to go on trips, etc… and for the most part, that would be […]
An Exciting Foraging Trip Today
Today, last minute, I went into the city to forage, and I came home with such a great amount of stuff that it was exciting! The kids and I picked a large amount of capers. We already picked once already this season, but just filled one small jar, and since I love capers and I […]
Summer Foraging and Meeting the Other Expat Foragers in the Neighborhood
In the past, I felt foraging locally was predominantly a winter thing, to the extent that I didn’t even offer any foraging classes in the summer, only the winter. Then I started realizing that I could forage year round; I was lucky enough to live in a place where year round foraging is possible, and […]
Foraging and Gardening, and Combining the Two
On Friday, I taught a private foraging class to a teenager with Autism; it was his second foraging class |(in the space of two weeks) since he enjoyed the first one so much. My kids came along, and together, we found some awesome stuff! The first thing we found was some purslane, which is one […]
Foraged Wild Mulberry Syrup Recipe, Vegan, Refined Sugar Free Option
I had specific plans about kitchen foraging experimentation that I had wanted to do yesterday, working on a few different versions of gluten free and paleo gnocchi, with foraged ingredients, but you know how it happens- plans change… I was walking to the grocery store to pick up one ingredient that I still needed for […]
Update On My Little Container Garden
I recently wrote about how I made a compost in my apartment, even without a yard or a porch to call my own, just in a container on my window sill, and there I shared how I planned on turning my brown thumb into a green thumb, using that compost to attempt to grow vegetables […]
Apartment Composting With No Yard, No Porch, and No Worms
Our fresh new compost! See how black it is? It started a few months ago when our local government passed a measure that was supposed to be environmentally beneficial, but I felt would just hurt the finances of people already struggling financially, without actually benefiting the environment as it was supposed to. As a protest, I wrote […]
Giving Our Homemade Couch a Makeover To Suit My Tastes- For Free!
Ever have an idea that in theory was great but in practice didn’t work out as planned? That’s what happened with our couch. Two years ago, sick of having no couch in our home, Mike turned a wooden shoe box he’d built into a couch, by first turning it into a bench, then I added […]
Paleo Pepperoni Dock Wraps Recipe- Made With Wild Greens
I’ve been doing lots of crazy busy things around the house as well as out of the house, and today I needed to just catch up on all the housework that has been piling up. Of course, even if I need to take it easy, the kids and I still need to eat, but I […]
Missing Making Maple Syrup With My Family
This little bottle, evoking lots of nostalgia I use a variety of natural sweeteners in my household, but one of them, I only bought 3 times since I’ve been married, because it pains me to pay as much as we do for it locally, when it is something we pretty much got for free growing […]
