Minimalism. Mindfulness. Munchies.
Today here in Colorado, the temperature is forecasted to go from around 80 degrees at mid-day to the mid-30s tonight. Fall is here, and people around my area have been frantically trying to get ready. My friend Butter (of Hunger and Thirst for Life) spent the last two days foraging like a madwoman before...
Every day when my daughter and I go out in the back yard to play, she runs up to our apple tree and starts saying, “More! More!”—which is 17-month-old for “May I please have an apple?” Believe it or not, she’ll eat pretty much the whole thing while wandering around, exploring and playing in...
Do you know what’s totally glorious right now? Corn. I know, I know. Corn is the devil food. Corn is in just about every processed food in existence. It’s subsidized so much that it’s more profitable for farmers to sell it for fuel or animal feed than to grow it for people food. It makes animals...
Wow! I can’t believe I’ve been doing this sustainable eating challenge for six weeks already!! No dilly-dallying. Let’s get straight to it! Why aren’t you preserving food? A couple of weeks ago I had something happen that I’d been really DREADING since I started my foray into water-bath canning a year or so ago:...
Autumn is here: do you know what your kids will be eating? If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time now, you’ve probably heard me talk about the Mix & Match Rule. (If you haven’t heard about it yet, click here to watch the video!) I created the Mix & Match...
Last week, I wrote an exposé of the real cost of buying local food—and it was unfortunately WAY more than my family can afford. I would hazard to say it’s more than most average American families can afford. But I still believe in the importance of supporting my local foodshed. The cost of buying...
If you’ve been paying attention to the green foodie movement at all in the past few years, you’ve heard it before: organic is good; local is better. We’re encouraged time and time again to buy local produce, milk, and meat, to support our local foodshed and our local farmers. It’s incredibly important to do,...
Here on the Front Range in Colorado, we’re pretty lucky to have some of the finest farmer’s markets in the country. The Boulder Farmer’s Market is a gem of a grower’s market—meaning people can only sell what they make or grow themselves, no re-selling allowed. AND, this year I feel doubly lucky because a...
A few years back, some close friends of mine were getting married, and while over for dinner at our house one night, they asked me what was the best thing I had registered for when I got married. I thought about it for a moment and said, “Well, aside from all my dishes and...
I’m challenging myself to eat more sustainably over the next year—and documenting the steps I take in this series, inspired by an article in the Jul/Aug 2010 issue of Whole Living Magazine. Local, organic, free-range, rainforest certified, antibiotic-free—it can get really confusing out there in food land when you’re trying to make the best possible...