• green living

    Apple Picking 2010: Now, With Less Stress!

    by  • October 27, 2010 • Eating Locally, Homecooking, Gardening, Farm Fresh, green living, nature, pick your own, Thoughts, Thoughts • 2 Comments

    Every year, the kids and I (and often our friends) head to local farms for pick-you-own fun. This past weekend, that meant apple picking. The apple picking season generally starts in September and goes through early November here in Connecticut, so we are more than half-way through the season (and late by our standards)....

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    On Carrot Greens, Radish Greens and Other Edible Wastes

    by  • October 14, 2010 • Eating Locally, Homecooking, Gardening, Farm Fresh, green living, nature, Thoughts • 0 Comments

    A few years ago, I fell deeply in love with beet greens. They have a similar taste to beets, though far milder — like a beet-tinged spinach. And they are lovely served raw in salad, sauteed and more. Until learning that they were edible, I had always been in the cut-and-toss camp, though. A...

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    Foraging On My Own Property

    by  • July 27, 2009 • garden, green living • 5 Comments

    That is a palmful of some blissfully juicy, sweet-tart wild blackberries. So tasty. Last week, I noticed something red in a bush along my driveway while pulling out to go to the store. I didn’t stop at the time, and I mentally wrote it off as some inedible red berries like the perfectly round...

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    Growing Our Own Food

    by  • May 13, 2008 • garden, green living • 6 Comments

    The price of baby food – the organic, affordable food that Paige eats – jumped 10 cents. Sugar has more than doubled in price for our small town. Gas is teetering on $4 a gallon. I talked about my fears last week . . . and they only seem to intensify as the days...

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    Our Children’s World

    by  • May 7, 2008 • green living • 2 Comments

    A deadly virus is attacking young children in China. A tidal wave has killed thousands in Myanmar/Burma. A woman held prisoner by her own father is finally free of her basement prison after 30 years and several children . . . As if that isn’t enough, gas prices are skyrocketing to a point I...

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