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Rio’s Fried Apples For Friends

October 21, 2009

Rio came home today from picking up our farm share with an apple in her hand. “Mom!” she shouted. “I have an apple. My own apple from the farm. I am going to cut it up into small pieces and fry it and put cinnamon on it and we are going to eat it on [...]

Tagged as: education, food, rio

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Happy Equinox, closing out the Gratitude Project

September 20, 2009

Today’s the Equinox, and the last official day of the Gratitude Project. As always after six weeks of honoring my blessings, I’m infused with gratitude for all the small wonders in my daily life. I don’t want to stop paying attention to them, or writing about them. But I’ll drop the daily practice of it, [...]

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Elimination update

September 11, 2009

I’m nearing the end of the first phase of the elimination diet: the one where I eat only “hypoallergenic” foods. Next comes the “challenge phase”, where I try eating the things I cut out one at a time and see if any of them make me sick. This first phase has been plenty challenging on [...]

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Rio’s watermelon farm

September 9, 2009

When the peas died in midsummer, I simply tore them up and wondered what to do next with that plot of land. Rio solved the problem for me by moving in and setting up a farm. She (and her sister and her friends) have been “farming” the empty bed for a few weeks now. “Farming” [...]

Tagged as: food, garden, play, rio, serena

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Farm Share Survival Guide: my new article on Babble

September 8, 2009

I have a new article out today on Babble, offering tips on how to survive the bounty of a summer CSA share. And not a moment too soon. My bulk orders of extra veggies for canning are due this week. I’ll have to take my advice! Babble readers, welcome! If you’re visiting this blog for [...]

Tagged as: food, green, writing

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Elimination Diet

September 1, 2009

I started this elimination diet when we came home from Witchcamp. I’m a few days into it, and it sucks about as much as you’d expect. The goal is to explore the possibility that hidden food allergies are contributing to my chronic sinus infections and other low-grade-but-annoying health problems by cutting out everything I might [...]

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Good news, bad news

July 29, 2009

Good news: WIC is expanding their offerings to low-income Massachusetts families to include vegetables, eggs, cheese, rice and beans (among other things). What did they cover before? I shudder to think. But they seem to be allowing people to use their food vouchers to buy food now, so that’s all good. Bad news: Crazy firefighter [...]

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Home again

July 23, 2009

Back from a long week of rest. A week in a little lakeside cottage where it was always naptime. I learned to bake Really Good Bread there. I watched my kids chase ducks, and be chased by them. I read Lady Chatterly’s Lover again, and enjoyed it a lot more than I did when I [...]

Tagged as: family, food, health, travel

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Strawberry Jam!

June 17, 2009

The kids and I made half our haul of strawberries into a tasty jam this afternoon. Rio and Serena were both great helpers, as was the morning preschool gang. They washed the berries, cut the tops off them with a safety knife, and put them into bowls for mashing. Rio even helped stir the sugar [...]

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Serena helping in the garden

June 17, 2009

IMG_4206.JPG, originally uploaded by MzMuze. Serena, like most toddlers, loves to mimic everything Mommy does. Especially the things Mommy does that are not generally available to toddlers. Like operating a spray bottle full of cleaning chemicals, or using the garden tools. Today was her day to do it all, just like a grown-up. A few [...]