I like the survey thing. Did you you all? It was much easier to tally responses, although I missed some of your funny extra comments. I’ll survive though! I hope it was easier for you to enter the contest, too. I think I’m sticking with the system – I’m especially excited to use it for [...]
Entries from July 10th, 2010
WINNER: Naturally Knocked Up eCourse Registration
July 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Tags: giveaway
Kitchen Stewardship in the Big Woods: Family Camping Handbook, 2nd edition
July 9th, 2010 · 27 Comments · What to Buy
If you’ve always wanted to try camping as a frugal family vacation but are nervous because you have little ones, whether they’re babies, toddlers, or preschoolers, The newly UPDATED second edition of the Family Camping Handbook will show you how to survive and even thrive out in the woods with young children. You can bring [...]
Organic Gardening Series: Canning Basics for Preserving Summer Produce
July 8th, 2010 · 35 Comments · Organic Gardening
If you got your garden started off right, you may be harvesting lots of produce about this time. (If you live in the north country, like me, you’re still waiting on most things.) No garden yet? Sometimes it’s still less expensive to purchase a large quantity of produce from a local farmer, especially if it’s [...]
Tags: canning·gardening·organic·preserving vegetables·produce
GIVEAWAY: Natural Women’s Health eCourse ($96 value)
July 6th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
It’s my turn to bless one reader with a free enrollment for the 12-week multimedia eCourse to help women prepare for a natural pregnancy, achieve a long sought after pregnancy, or simply keep one’s body healthy by attending to what a woman’s body needs. Donielle of Naturally Knocked Up is offering an online course starting [...]
Tags: fertility
Favorite Summer Real Food Recipes
July 6th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Recipes
Summer recipes deserve a category all their own. One of my new recipe organization methods this year was to pull my strictly summertime recipes as I came across them, and I put them all in a manila folder marked “Summer Recipes.” It lives in storage along with phone numbers for my u-pick fruit places and [...]
Monday Mission: Revisiting Super Foods
July 5th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Monday Missions, Super Foods
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to focus on what you CAN eat this week instead of what you CAN’T. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps Many KS readers were not around last year when I ran a 15-week series on Super Foods, those foods that pack a nutritional punch and bring [...]
Tags: local·produce·Super Foods
Revealing the Local Grand Rapids Area Real Food Resource Page
July 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
I’ve been a local foods consumer for about five years now, ever since I discovered the joys of the Farmer’s Market and the summer fruit U-pick possibilities in our area. I’ve been asking even more questions of farmers lately, and I’ve compiled all my favorites (and some other recommendations from friends) into a Local Grand [...]
