For the first time since the inception of Kitchen Stewardship, there’s no Monday Mission today. Not even a review week. If you’re needing something to do this week, “The List: What to Eat, What to Avoid, How to Compromise” has been updated with everyone’s good ideas. You can print it now! We’re even taking a [...]
Entries from June 14th, 2010
It’s Going to be a Big Week…
June 14th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Uncategorized
Tags: camping·dehydrator·ebooks
Organic Gardening Series: Natural Pest Control
June 14th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Organic Gardening
They’re coming. They can knock over a whole pepper plant in a single night. They can make Swiss cheese look complete next to the leaves of your green beans. They can put holes in your fruit that will just tick you off as you struggle to cut around them. Rene of Budget Saving Mom talks [...]
Tags: gardening·natural bug spray·natural pest control·organic·pesticides·produce·slugs
Michael Pollan on “Can Grassfed Feed the World?”
June 11th, 2010 · 58 Comments · Food for Thought
Michael Pollan came on stage carrying bags of processed foods. He proceeded to pull out “edible food products” and do a little stand up comedy about all the corny ingredients in them, and how creative the food manufacturing industry is getting to keep coming up with new products that we then think we need to [...]
Tags: corn·factory farms·Go Local! Challenge·grassfed beef·Michael Pollan·nutritionism·sustainability
How to Plant Tomatoes: 8 Things I Put in the Tomato Planting Hole
June 10th, 2010 · 26 Comments · Organic Gardening
I’m no master gardener, but I am a perfectionist and rather thorough when I decide to tackle a project. Three years ago, my new thing was vegetable gardening. As a result of all my reading, watching me plant a tomato is almost like watching me make a complicated recipe in my kitchen. The 8 Things [...]
Organic Gardening Series: Genetically Modified Seeds
June 10th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Organic Gardening
No-GMO! The latest in the organic gardening series by Rene of Budget Saving Mom: To save money, we plant our garden from seeds. However, today a seed is not necessarily the type of seed that our grandparents would have planted. Many seeds have been genetically modified, had genes inserted in order to produce plants that [...]
Real Gardening vs. American Lawncare
June 9th, 2010 · 78 Comments · Uncategorized
Two weeks ago, I was watching my neighbor meticulously patch his lawn after spending a half hour edging the sidewalk. I thought, “If he spent that much time and care on a vegetable garden, he could feed his family all summer long.” Then last week on my son’s preschool field trip, the instructor showed the [...]
Tags: gardening·Go Local! Challenge·Little House in the Big Woods·local·sustainability·traditional foods
Recipe Connection: Cherry Almond Coconut Crepes
June 8th, 2010 · 21 Comments · Recipes
Get this recipe, updated and improved with tons of FAQs, in the eBook “Smart Sweets,” along with 29 other delicious desserts that won’t make you feel guilty! Click HERE for a table of contents. Maple syrup. Organic cherries. Coconut oil. Christmas coloring books. Celtic Sea Salt. Easter sticker calendar devotions. When I start to think [...]
Tags: crepes·dessert·eggs·fruit·yogurt cheese
