Posted in growing challenge, locavore, gardens on Jan 31st, 2008
My first set of seeds arrived today. Upon the advice I got from some of you, and my own personal bias, I decided to go ahead and order at least two varieties of most things. I also decided to only grow things that we love to eat and that we eat a lot of. […]
Well, told you on Friday that I’d get a post up about the house situation on Saturday. Then I flew to Orlando for a work conference that goes through tomorrow and things got interesting. We’ve had a signed contingent contract on the new property for more than a week, but we were still negotiating the […]
Hello! I’m Anne from Green Leanings and I’m recapping for the Middle this week.
Farm Mom is my new personal hero. It took some effort to pull myself away from her extensive list of fruits and vegetables grown last year (and new plants planned for the 2008 Growing Challenge) and her delicious-looking homemade whole wheat […]
Posted in Dark Days on Jan 27th, 2008
This guest post is coming to you from Melinda, at Elements In Time in Geyserville, California… who has never used WordPress before, and hopes that she can create a post even half as good as Laura’s wonderful recaps!
Well, it’s raining out here in the West, so it has been a pleasure to stay inside […]
Posted in EatLocalChallenge on Jan 27th, 2008
My first time recapping for the Eastern region and I’m already green with jealousy of the other participants!
Kim has a source for local shrimp, which makes want to make her adopt me so I could have a local shrimp source, too! In the two weeks since the last Dark Days update, Kim has made […]
My mom and I were talking a few weeks ago and she mentioned that she had my great aunt Audrey’s recipe box. That she’d gotten it when she passed away a few years ago but hadn’t done anything with it. Then she offered it to me since I’m the “cook” in the family. Scary […]
It’s been a roller coaster couple of weeks. We found a house, listed our house, lost a house, found another house and now are putting the final touches on the second house (details tomorrow). Cooking is hard to do when you’re trying to keep your house perfectly clean at all times. I’m not a clean […]
