Likes, Links and Random Musings – The “I suck at canning” edition

Welcome to Likes, Links and Random Musings! Every week I’ll share with you my favorite posts for the week. Check them out and if you like them leave a comment and let them know. One word can sum up my week…harvest! It seems like everything in our Organic Garden is ripening right now. I’ve got [...]

Another Reason to Eat Organic Produce

The nutritional value of the fruits and vegetables that we buy in the grocery store is diminishing. In 2004, Donald Davis, PhD, a former researcher with the Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas, Austin, led a team that analyzed 43 fruits and vegetables from 1950 to 1999 and reported reductions in vitamins, minerals, and [...]

The Organic Garden Project

I’m excited we have the space to plant a proper garden this year. I’ve been itching to get started but an unusually wet spring delayed our ground breaking. Finally last week we were able to get started. My husband spent four days digging, tilling, fencing and planting our garden. We now have eleven 4 x [...]

Ditch the Plastic Bottles: PUR Water Filtration System Giveaway

If you could make a small change that would save you money, help the environment and possibly protect your health, would you do it? This is the decision I made three years ago when I decided to kick our bottled water habit and install a water filtration system. Three years ago: We consumed an average [...]

Baby Steps to a Sustainable, Self-Sufficient Lifestyle

It seems like everyday we hear of another food recall or a study is released telling us some artificial ingredient in our food has been found to cause cancer. The state of our food production system is appalling. Large agricultural companies continue to implement measures that drive up their profits and drive down the nutritional [...]

Everything is new

This weekend as I was turning my compost pile (cue banjo music), I realized how completely different my life is now. Everything I do now is new to me. Five years ago I was a career-driven professional living in San Francisco and working in Silicon Valley for a large technology company. Now I’m an aspiring [...]

Invest in Your Health: Grass-Fed Beef

Over the past few years I’ve significantly cut back on the amount of beef my family eats. I subscribed to the belief that beef was bad for you. But what I’ve learned over the past few months while researching the healthiest foods you can eat, the health factor of beef is less about beef itself [...]