June 2013 – The Dew Abides

d.i.y., home remedies June 28, 2013 July 17, 2013

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by Brad

I dearly love my wife. Among her best qualities — and it’s a long list — are things like boundless energy and a Pollyanna-like…

cooking, food preservation, goodlifery, homesteading, local food, the pact June 28, 2013 July 16, 2013

by Jenn

In this, our fourth year of food preservation, I’ve finally found the nerve to try something that has long given me the heebie geebies:…

goodlifery June 27, 2013 August 6, 2013

by Jenn

Normally when a camera comes out, my pasty Irish self scurries like a cockroach in sunlight. But when Mutual of Omaha asked us at…

food preservation, homesteading, local food, recipes June 26, 2013 July 16, 2013

by Jenn

Only worked a half day yesterday, so what did I do with all that spare time to relax? That’s right. I went on a…

food preservation, gardening, homesteading June 24, 2013 July 16, 2013

by Jenn

Fed up with an ugly strip of eroding land in our back yard, last summer I gathered every rock on the property and created…

food preservation, homesteading, recipes June 22, 2013 September 14, 2013

by Jenn

With more food in the crisper this week than we could possibly eat, including lots of fresh carrots, I began looking for ways to…

local food, recipes June 21, 2013 July 8, 2013

by Jenn

Included in Saturday’s CSA pickup was a bag of weird green leaves I didn’t recognize. Being stupid adventurous, I ripped off a hefty chunk…

d.i.y. June 19, 2013 July 16, 2013

by Jenn

For weeks, one of Brad’s toiletry bags had been torn, sitting on the bathroom counter daring me to mend its slick, rayon-y material. Finally…

beekeeping, local food June 18, 2013 July 14, 2013

by Jenn

Traveling through Colorado last month, I was shocked at the number of restaurants that offered local mead by the glass. Too bad each one…