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Food Storage Friday -Feb $10 a week Challange -Week 1

So here is my first weeks $10 worth of grocery’s. I got two packages of mushrooms, one very large pinnaple, a big celery bunch -which’s end I have planted in a pot of good rich potting soil and I can … Continue reading

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Fish and what they are eating these days!

I like fish, I remember fresh caught fish up at the family cabin, out at the red deer river, fishing out on different lakes across alberta, and Northern Fishing is a delight! Fresh caught Char that could be bought directly … Continue reading

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Orange ShortBread Cookies-New rolling pin #1

A fellow blogger was posting about making Marmalade. and as I said, I got some of the coolest rolling pins for christmas! This one is small, just the three rows of patterns, and works for cookies, and also I figure … Continue reading

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Monday…This and that

Finally, I have been up since six, my morning list of chores before being allowed to write is always just a bit longer on monday, I had cooked up some yummy steel cut oats for breakfast and for bread making. … Continue reading

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Garden Overview 2011- Lots to give thanks for..

Well, I have been working on this all week, I also have been figuring out critter imputes in terms of meat, milk, eggs, last night we had a surprise in the little barn with a new clutch of peeping ducklings … Continue reading

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Sign of the times..

With late summer and early fall wild crabapple, apple, plum and berry foraging all taking place, it means that I am driving down some roads that I typically only go down twice a year, once in the spring to confirm … Continue reading

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Giving Back in your own local area

I wrote a post a few weeks back about food and making sure that folks in my local community have access to food resources. If you have not read it, or if you don’t remember it, I would recommend to … Continue reading

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This is a warning to remember what the item held before Matters!

 I don’t often copy and paste recent news but this one caught my ear as I was working away as it hit CBC radio and I felt it was worth putting out. In today’s reuse, recycle as much as possable, … Continue reading

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Ecozoom Stove Review..

So on M.D. Creekmore’s blog, he did a great! review of this little stove and it sent me on the hunt to find out more about this stove, I read another five reviews from different folks, and checked out the … Continue reading

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Healing foods for your lungs..

This reaction, then infection that has hit me is centered on my throat and lungs, which means that it is very important to eat to provide your body what it needs to give a helping hand.. So all orange colored … Continue reading

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