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The Simplicity Garden

Simplify, this may be the best single word advice I ever received. I first encounter what was to become a movement about 20 years ago. I was looking for ways to reduce my expenses and lighten the amount of...

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Growing Vegetables Indoors

It is snowing outside and you are craving a few cherry tomatoes to garnish the fresh green salad that you just made. You want it fresh not from the store where the tomatoes and green may have traveled...

38 comments    family home food
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Slow Cooker Breakfast Recipes

It has been said before and will be said again, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A good nourishing meal at the beginning of the day gets you up and ready to face what is coming your way. ...

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Harvesting and Eating Dandelions

They grow everywhere or so it seems, you do not have to tend them, water them or feed them, all you need to do is appreciate them and harvest them. Then enjoy them as wine, tea, in a salad or deep fried as...

37 comments    food recipe eating
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Why saving the bees is so important for our world.

All elements of an ecosystem are important to the functioning of that ecosystem. Remove one element and the system will need to make adjustments. The effect of that adjustment may often not be known until...

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On Being a Good Guest

Getting together with friends and co-workers can be very enjoyable; however, when the person who has invited you to their home is someone you only know casually it can be stressful. Recently we were...

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How To Grow Great Potatoes

Potatoes, mashed, baked, boiled scalloped and perhaps my favourite, potato salad especially when it is made with new red potatoes, are a great food. What is even better you can grow your own potatoes and...

39 comments    advice food garden
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Buying and Storing Olive Oil

How to Buy and Store Olive Oil: I am not a big fan of olives, my wife loves them so we always have them on hand but I do love olive oil. Olive oil comes in three basic types: There is...

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No Sugar Added Banana Muffins: Recipe

The last few days, when I went grocery shopping, the only bananas that were available, including the organic ones, were already beyond the ripeness stage that I usually look for, so I was going to pass...

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Simple Couscous recipe

I enjoy food. I find food shopping, food preparation and oh yes, eating, all to be positive experiences. Dishes well, I do them but it’s always more fun when someone else does the cleaning up. ...

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