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How to Easily Grill Corn on the Campfire
Tweet Pin It This year Ellie & Christor were old enough to actually help us plan for our annual camping trip, including participating in meal planning. They declared that they were going to make...
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Creating a Beehive Co-op
Tweet Pin It Harvesting Honey without disturbing the bees with Flow Hive We have bees. Not an infestation, but an actual honey beehive that we have setup in our backyard. Luckily, it’s legal here,...
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Your Perfect Lawn Makes Me Sick
Tweet Pin It Every day I drive the carpool to school and we drive past lots of yards. Some have gardens, some have bushes, some have scraggly grass, some have grass with brown spots, but a couple are...
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The Best Bees in Massachusetts
Tweet Pin It It turns out, if you want to buy 10,000 bees and a queen bee in New England, you have to plan early. In February we received confirmation that our Flow Hive would ship in late March and...
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Dogs and Doughboys
Tweet Pin It Talking about Dogs and Doughboys This year on our annual camping trip I was sitting with my young friend by the fire making doughboys and discussing why some people like dogs and some...
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Building Our Beehive
Tweet Pin It We were very excited when our beehive finally arrived – about a year after we had decided to go in jointly on a beehive. We were very excited to build it and decided to work on it...
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The Day the Bees Ran Away
Tweet Pin It Saturday, three days after we installed our new bees, I went into the kitchen and heard a significant buzzing in our backyard. I looked out the back window and saw what looked like...
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Camping in the Rain
Tweet Pin It Seriously mom? When you’ve got a trip planned with 40 of your favorite people to hang out with, you just don’t want to cancel because of a little rain! My babysitting exchange, which...
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Checking the Bee Hive
Tweet Pin It Opening the beehive It’s an important practice to check your beehive periodically. We check ours to see if the bees are doing a good job filling out their frames and if they’re ready for...
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Cute Kids and Cats
Tweet Pin It One of our sons is internet-obsessed. He was very excited to learn that we have a blog (it’s as old as he is!) and a YouTube Channel. He thinks it’s very important to have a post on...
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How efficient is your cooking?
Multi-cookers such as Instant Pot DUO are the most efficient method of cooking today Preparing food is a necessity of life and there are many options that impact your carbon footprint. Before I go...
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Cooking with Gas vs. Pressure – which uses more energy?
In my previous blog post I hypothesized that multi-cookers, such as Instant Pots, were the most efficient method of cooking available for a home. In this article, I will run through one experiment...
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How bad is cooking with gas for your family?
I’ve written about the energy saving advantages of multi-cookers/Instant Pots before, but now let’s dive into the health implications of cooking with gas. The best advice I can give you is to always...
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The green household products we use in our home
As you try to live more sustainably, it is important to look at and consider the everyday products you use at home. Today we are going to share what we are currently using from toilet paper to laundry...
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Alternative to TP for your Tushy
By now, I hope that most stores have restocked their toilet paper and you have been able to purchase a reasonable amount of TP. You’ve probably also seen a number of funny meme with TP alternatives...
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