LOW-CARBON LIFE

Several years ago when I moved into my little house heated only by a wood stove, I knew I needed a summer baking option, pronto. Enter th...

I used to get excited to look at my dinner or breakfast plate and realize it held more than one ingredient that I had grown. Eggs from my...

Last year in foothills North Carolina, we had a hundred-year flood in June. Then we went three months without any rain at all. Some thing...

How are resilience and justice connected? In my humble and not-particularly-well-educated opinion, lots of ways. All the ways. A short no...

As coronavirus blooms, freaked-out people are planting gardens all over the world and I completely understand why. Having access to good ...

Is it just me, or are there a whole bunch of extra dishes lately? They’re rising out of the sink and colonizing my tiny counter in every ...

It’s May! The weather is beautiful! Much better than last year, when May tried to pretend it was June. Except it’s going to get down to 3...

Hello everyone. I have angered the internet with this post, so I am required to fact check myself. I have to let the original stand, and ...

I just walked into my grocery store for the first time in a month, and it was surreal. First, because I was there without my two kids (ag...

When I first met my husband the Data Fiend (DF), we were dual income/no kids with oodles of time on our hands. Being frugal, home-centere...

Spoiler alert: it was mostly an accident. See, the other day I was half way through writing a lovely little post about how we fertilize o...

Since we’re all avoiding the grocery store to help keep everyone as healthy as possible, the first thing you might run out of is lettuce....

All of a sudden, people are concerned about being able to get the basics. Toilet paper. Hand sanitizer. Fresh milk. It’s natural to cast ...

This is the most exciting time of year. The air is warming, the frogs are calling and the goats’ bellies are swelling with soon-to-be new...

We’re not preparing only because we’re already prepared, at least on the most basic and most useful level. I can’t think of much I could ...

The other day I was sitting at a table with several other homeschool moms when someone said her family was interested in a compost toilet...

At our house we have a goal to produce 80% of our fruit, veggies, meat and dairy within five years of moving onto our land. We only eat a...

First, I want to let you know I have a guest post about how we cook off grid on The Organic Prepper. Preparedness has gotten a bad name l...

I admit it. It was me who brought the crazy house-building scheme into our marriage. But he encouraged me! If he hadn’t, I would have giv...

First a giveaway! The other day I happened to meet a frugal guru named Jane Dwinell in some obscure corner of the internet. She mailed me...