Like nomads, but with more stuff

 We've brought the herbs indoors and dug up every last vine and plant that had produced, or promised yet failed to produce, food. A few ...

More accurately, "failure" as it has only been one attempt. We decided to play around with dehydrating the starter just in case we...

We were lucky enough to get a spot in one of the two community gardens we applied to. Then, after we got that notification Terry found a fe...

Calgary surprised me with the dearth of Hanukkah candles in December, so I was prepared to expect nothing in any store in the way of matz...

In typical Soviet fashion, we received a message this afternoon from the kids' summer camp that tomorrow is the talent show/party and e...

Leanne Brown is a food-studies scholar who wrote a book, Good and Cheap , that enables people on very tight budgets (think food stamps)...

Astana is a consumables, Pouch-only post. There are few non-dairy milks to be found around town and the only ones I have heard of so far ar...

One thing that has become a tradition for our family with each UAB shipment is the follow on cardboard forts.  We pack a couple of box cu...

Every year for the kids' birthdays Terry and I argue about how to celebrate. He prefers the way he grew up: birthday child chooses dinn...

Today was the first in what I believe will be a series of trips to our local orchard for apple "seconds'. From today's haul I ...

It turns out, in America, that the fewer ingredients your bread has the more it cost. Being all house poor and all, paying $5 per loaf when...

We eat a lot of jam in our family. Lots of peanut butter and jam, lots of toast with jam. We throw jam into our oatmeal and in our plain ...

I brewed my second batch of beer a little before the New Years and it has been fermenting for two weeks. I was planning this weekend to b...