Book Review: Homesteading

Kirk and I were running errands this morning when I saw the just out book, Homesteading: A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More, at Costco. Costco is selling it for $14.99, a great bargain indeed. If you read the original version [...]

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A Long Time Favorite Book

When I was growing my parents had this book on their bookshelf:

It was the classic by Readers Digest – that went on to teach me a lot of skills over the years. How to skin a squirrel, make soap, ford a river, can, plant a garden…..one of those books everyone ate up in the late [...]

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Book Review: Vegetarian Times Complete Cookbook

In my early 20’s one of the first “modern” cookbooks I picked up was a copy of Vegetarian Times Complete Cookbook. My copy came out in 1995 and at the time I was living a vegan diet. In 1995 finding even a 1/3rd of the ingredients in the book was nearly impossible (Internet shopping? Organics [...]

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Book Reviews: Planet Girl Crafty Books

Crafting has come SO far from when I was a kid. I was always good at sewing and putting stuff together, back when it was sadly totally unhip to do it. I was the only person in Home Ec in the 7 & 8th grades who wanted to be there. To say I was the [...]

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