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
If you’re a beginner in the world of canning, this post is for you. Tomatoes are a wonderful long-term storage food. Learning how to can tomatoes…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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