Posted in Eating, Freebies, Garden, Green Living, Home, food, local, thrift, tagged cherries, fruit, liqueur, neighbors, pie on June 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This week, as I’ve been out walking the dog, I couldn’t help but notice a neighbor down the street with a tree full of cherries growing riper … and riper. I remembered my vow last year to ask for fruit that appeared to be going to waste, so I knocked on the door on Tuesday.
Nobody [...]
Posted in Garden, Growing Challenge, food, tagged basil, butternut squash, cucumbers, Garden, seedlings, tomatoes, volunteers on June 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
In the garden, we are entering the exciting Stage 2, where the plants are *visibly* growing.
Stage 1 is “everything is in the ground and it’s just sitting there!” Impatient people such as myself get very irritable with Stage 1 … even though we know, intellectually, that while the plant “just sits,” it is doing important [...]
Posted in Eating, Green Living, food, tagged csa, enoki, food, garlic scapes, lettuce, organic, rhubarb, vegetables on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thursday was an exciting day: Our first CSA delivery arrived.
We stopped by our lovely host’s home and picked up our giant box, in which a couple of the ballyhooed-by-e-mail crops (garlic scapes - 4; Vidalia onion - 1) looked particularly pitiful.
The contents of our small share (half-share) were:
One lovely head of Bibb/butter lettuce.
One head of [...]
Posted in Deals, Eating, Green Living, Saving, Shopping, food, money, thrift, tagged Saving, milk, organic, coupons, Deals on June 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This showed up yesterday on The “Cent”sible Sawyer - coupons for organic goods. I would save it for Friday, but some of these things can expire quickly, so I’d advise jumping right on it.
Some of the services only send you coupons once, so bear that in mind, as well.
I had my own money-saving moment this [...]
Posted in Eating, Home, food, tagged blender, canning jar, kitchen, tips on June 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Check out this post that tells how to use a canning jar on your blender to blend things right in the jar — then flip it over, attach a lid and you’re ready to go!
The post and the comments suggest uses like:
Whipped cream
Chopped nuts
Ground spices
Using Mason mugs for frozen drinks right in the jar
Smoothies, anyone? [...]
Posted in Garden, Green Living, Growing Challenge, Home, food, tagged bell pepper, birds, Garden, lemon, meyer lemon, okra, potatoes, row cover, strawberries, tomato, wall-o-water on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
The beets are growing! They finally sprouted and up they came. I don’t have a photo of the green beans, but they are growing (sheltered under row cover, so the birds can’t eat the sprouts), and the second planting (to replace what the birds ate) is coming up now.
Also, here’s a picture of the Meyer [...]
Posted in Deals, Eating, Garden, Green Living, Saving, energy, food, money, tagged Deals, dvs, easy jam, Green Living, jam, Saving, strawberries, survivalism on June 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week, Free Money Finance wrote about MSN’s article on five foods it’s cheaper to grow and five foods it’s cheaper to buy. I added a comment that I think berries (strawberries) are cheaper to grow, and onions aren’t worth it (too space-hogging). What “crops” are worth it to you?
One of the biggest queries [...]
Posted in Eating, Garden, Green Living, food, tagged beef, bulk buying, csa, farmer's market, groceries, local produce, vegetables on June 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
June is exciting in these parts. It’s time for the farmer’s markets, CSAs and the like to swing into action.
Last year, we only went to one farmer’s market and I was not impressed. In the spring the tables were full … of goods brought in from other, warmer states. I wanted local produce, and there [...]
Posted in Eating, Environment, Green Living, Shopping, food, money, tagged food, fruit, healthy, milk, nutrition, organic, studies, vegetables on June 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Last week I came across this blog looking at whether organic food is healthier than conventionally grown foods. I missed the story on NPR, but it sounds like organic fruits and veggies just might be more nutritious than “regular.”
(Regular, of course, is a relatively modern invention — “conventional” foods WERE organic for, oh, thousands of [...]
Posted in Eating, Garden, Green Living, Growing Challenge, Home, food, tagged Garden, spring, Growing Challenge, strawberries, mushrooms, iris, cantaloupe, kale, greens, lettuce, tomatoes, apples, summer on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Summer has come in, and this week’s garden update is an exciting one. The baby plants we’ve installed have finally started to grow, and some of our seeds are sprouting. In addition, Mr. Cheap’s iris are in bloom. This is the third year we’ve lived in our house. Most of the iris moved with us, [...]
