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Zucornwhatnow?
Zucornchile. This is an adaptation of a recipe from one of our no-fail cookbooks, Home-Tested Recipe Collection. This book seems hard to find online, which is too bad for you, because almost every one...
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Valentine Chocolate Bark
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Doubling the Effort for Half the Energy
Our electric bill has been a little higher than we'd like the past few months. Sure, you have to factor in the Christmas lights we hung (and only lit about five times) and the fact that winter's fewer...
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Flashback to One of Our Favorite Vacations
Take the scenic routeKaty Trail, August 19-23, 2007. Five days of biking in the Missouri River valley. Nothing mattered but drinking enough water, eating when we were hungry, and making it to our...
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...And More Compost
It's been almost three years since we posted anything substantial about composting (see April 2009's "Compost, Compost, Compost"), but really, how often do you need to tell people, "Dude, like, compost...
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Almost Halfway to Halving...
Two weeks ago, I abashedly admitted we were using twice the electricity we should be ("Doubling the Effort..."). And, I can only reasonably account for a very small need for increase in usage. (When...
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Building with Cob - Not So Wacky
I came across an article on homes made from wacky materials, which linked to another article on the same homes—plus a few more—made from wacky materials. Both article piqued my interest, but neither...
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The Gardening Begins... Late
I was supposed to start my tomato and pepper seeds indoors on February 26, but Sprout Robot did not send me an email reminder! I don't know why. Or maybe they did send it but my email account...
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Rainy Season-Opener
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Solidly Green
I signed up on Practically Green and took the quiz to find out how find out how green I am. There were a lot of questions about all aspects of life—laundry, recycling, groceries, transportation, where...
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Earth Hour This Saturday - No Excuses!
The most common excuse I hear for not participating in Earth Hour is, "Well, I would, but I'm not going to be home." Please. Being home is a better excuse for not participating, because maybe you...
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The Ants, Naturally
It's that time of year. The insects want in.I saw a few ants in our first-floor bathroom, apparently coming in from under a baseboard. What could possibly have lured them from outdoors into the...
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Field Trip to Heritage Prairie Farm
Have you seen the documentary Food, Inc.? It's meant to educate viewers on where their food comes from. If you're a meat eater, I definitely recommend you watch it, and I'd like to assure you that it...
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Garden Bonus
Saturday was our first official day working in our community garden plot, and as I was digging up the spaces where I would plant the first spring crops, I spotted... volunteer radish sprouts!In a...
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Farm-Fresh Dinner
I told you about those radish sprouts I discovered on Saturday and about our field trip to Heritage Prairie Farm earlier that morning. Well, one thing led to another, and we had a delicious,...
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Lazy Earth Day
This Sunday, celebrate Earth Day the lazy man's way: Just stay in bed!Start conserving energy the night before by unplugging your alarm clock. Then on Earth Day, you can reduce your carbon footprint...
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It's Arbor Day
I never knew the billboard industry was so cutthroat. But I read an eye-opening article on MSN yesterday, "A crime by the highway: Poisoning trees to make billboards easier to see," and it, well,...
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Tamales, by gollies!
Corny title, yes. But tamales are a corny food. The main ingredient is masa harina (a sort of corn flour that is usually white and is much finer ground than corn meal), and then you wrap them up in...
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What's New in the Garden
Here's a bird's-eye view of the community garden only a a couple of weeks after it officially opened. By late summer, it will no longer be a picturesque patchwork of neat garden plots but instead a...
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A Permanent Addition
Do you remember these little babies?Those are our apple trees when they were just sprouts. This photo is probably from early winter 2008 (there's snow out the window in the background), and the...
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