I feel like, overall, we've settled into a pretty good rhythm with what we eat.  I still buy some things pre-made from the store, like c...

Amazingly, I'm still sticking to it.  I still haven't noticed having to carve out huge amounts of time to make it work, and the resu...

Yeesh, I'm talkative lately.  I feel like there are so many things bouncing around in my head, and I just want to post to get them all o...

I feel like a champ.  I haven't spent any (ANY!) money at all this week, and we've had home-cooked food for every meal so far. I coo...

As Ethan has gotten busier (and busier!) and takes fewer/shorter naps, I've been feeling frazzled again in the morning.  Especially when...

Shayne built me these wonderful shelves this afternoon.  They're obviously not fancy, just plywood on wall-mounted shelf brackets.  But...

This was a bit of a rough year; between working full-time and keeping up with the kidlet, I didn't really have much spare time at all.  ...

 Add this one to the list of things I never thought I'd do...!  But it was very easy, and I'm thinking that this will probaby turn o...

I got my first "delivery" of milk today!  It came out of the cow yesterday morning, and I picked it up today at the farmer's m...

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while (about 2 years or so...) is to find a local source for milk and dairy products.  I...

Life was certainly much easier before I started worrying and thinking so much about food.  I read This Organic Life by Joan Dye Gussow a fe...

Since I started my journey last year to become more self-sufficient, I've learned a lot about how to process and store various foods.  L...

Living with the seasons has been such a fulfilling experience for me.  Now that we've been doing it for a little over a year, it's a...

In the spirit of fall, I made some beef and barley stew this morning to put in the freezer for after baby arrives (assuming he ever does...)...

Fall is here!! Shayne and I went to the farmers market yesterday morning and were amazed at how quickly the harvest went from "summer...

Last year on a whim I bought a Roma food mill and made my own spaghetti sauce from fresh roma tomatoes.  While the sauce was decent, it was...

Gonna can a lot of peaches, more like.  I bought almost a half bushel at the market yesterday, just for canning.  Peaches are the only thin...

I went a little crazy at the farmer's market yesterday...  Sweet corn started coming in a couple weeks ago, and I obviously needed to ge...

A little over a year ago, I made my first real shopping trip to the South Bend Farmers Market.  The market has been around pretty much forev...

This afternoon, I harvested my first-ever homegrown crop: broccoli!! There are actually 4 heads, but the other one was already chopped up an...