Yeah, so I’m terrible at introductions whether it be at dinner, or a new classroom, or giving a presentation. Turns…
Food Security Without Burnout: Freezer Prepping, One Thing at a Time
When we talk about food security on a homestead (or homestead-ish life), it’s easy to picture full freezers, color-coded meal…
What I’m Working On This Week at Second Time Around Homestead
This week on the homestead looked nothing like the plan; and that’s real life. Here’s what I focused on and…
New Year Goals That Smell Like Paper and Possibility
There’s something about the new year that makes us all want to plan. Not the rigid, color-coded, must-achieve-everything kind of…
Foundations First: A Gentler Way to Start the New Year
January has a way of making us feel like we need to fix everything at once: our homes, our habits,…
School break is both prepping and catching up
I teach full time. I teach middle school full time, but I think any teaching is exhausting. There are tons…
Bringing Green to the Gloom: Inside Winter Gardening
The days are shorter, the light is weaker, and the weather seems to have decided that gray is the new…
Fall Garden Chores You Shouldn’t Skip
I know, I know. Once the air turns crisp and the days get shorter, it’s tempting to hang up the…
Preserving the Harvest: Freezing vs. Canning vs. Dehydrating
You know that bittersweet feeling when the garden is bursting at the seams: tomatoes everywhere, herbs going wild, baskets of…
Quick overview of writing a book…it’s so much more than the writing.
Ok, so you probably realize that writing a book requires, well… writing, and then lots (and lots) of editing before…
