HEALTHY Long-Term Food Storage Options
Storing food for emergencies is an important job. What is the best method to preserve food? I’ve already covered how to store grains, long-term storage…
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How to Can Tomatoes the Easy Way – Perfect for Beginners
Tomatoes are a wonderful long-term storage food. Learning how to can tomatoes is a great way to store the abundance you may be getting from…
Monday Mission: Memorize the Dirty Dozen Produce List + How to Clean your Produce
If you try to buy organic when it counts to be gentle on your budget, you’re probably familiar with the Dirty Dozen produce list published…
Why I’m Tempted to Ditch the Organic Foods Movement
They say parenting changes you. And they aren’t kidding. I remember looking down at our firstborn when she was a tiny little bundle. Such a…
Cardamom Ginger Peach Crumble Recipe (Gluten-Free)
. Call me un-American, but I’m not a pie person. Especially apple pie. There’s just something about the crust that lacks substance to me. Even…
Are Organic Pesticides–or the Fruit Itself–Really Worse Than Conventional Farming???
Almost 40,000 people thought the “Organic, Schmorganic” article last week at Slate.com was worth sharing with their friends, including a sharp KS reader who was…
Parmesan Fried Eggplant Recipe
After a disastrous eggplant recipe that featured the new-to-me vegetable in a slow cooker lasagna – one of the few meals in the history of…
Strawberry Controversy: Organic, Local, or Just Don’t Eat?
Does “real food” have to mean “organic?” Can conventionally grown produce still be healthy for you? Is buying organic worth foreclosure on your home? I’m…
Lemon Wedge in My Water? Not Anymore!
I’ve really been enjoying squeezing lemon into my water lately and dropping in the wedge to flavor the next refill a bit. I’m already changing…
A Real Food Alternative to Potato Chips: Munchy, Crunchy, Salty, and Nourishing!
Don’t tell anyone, but we had some potato chips around here for Thanksgiving. I wanted to make that French Onion chip dip again that is…
How to Clean Produce Naturally and Save Money
Want to know the first thing I do after I get all my groceries put away each week? Take a nap. (Umm, just kidding. I’d…
How to Store Fresh Herbs {the lazy way}
Got basil? I tend to make impulse buys at the Farmer’s Market, and I don’t always consider whether I’ll be able to use things quickly…
Healthy Food Resources in Michigan and the Midwest
I live in Michigan, where we have all four seasons, sometimes three in one day. If you’re in the Midwest as well, I hope there…
10 Questions to Ask Your Farmer
Joel Salatin’s said it. Michael Pollan has probably said it. Countless bloggers, locavores, and whole foods enthusiasts have said it. Get to know your farmer.…
Monday Mission: Buy Local Produce
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to find something to buy local this month. Farmer’s Markets across the country are in full swing,…
Organic Gardening: Natural Pest Control
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…
Spring Cleaning Carnival: Get the Pesticides Out!
What a treat! It’s Laura of Heavenly Homemakers popping over for a chat today, sharing her story about organic gardening, a subject she knows plenty…
I Just Love Finding Bugs in My Lettuce
I’ll take bugs, please. What’s on your produce? When a friend of a friend moved to Colorado, my friend was telling me about the organic…
A Reduced Produce Primer
Go Green at the Grocery! Does your supermarket have a reduced produce section? …Not that they sell fewer fruits and veggies than they used to,…