cultivating a sustainable life
No time for a real post tonight, but I thought I’d share a few more photos from our trip. These two beauties are members of a herd of Highland Cattle at Ruckle farm (one of the original farms on Salt Spring Island). If I were …
A farmer’s market is a great place to find unusual varieties of things that you’d never find in a typical grocery store, and this week I must have been in an adventurous mood, because I came home with several things that I’d never bought before. …
We’re back from our holiday, feeling rested and relaxed, but wishing we’d had more time to soak up the atmosphere of our idyllic destination. We spent the entire week in a cabin on Saltspring Island, our favorite of the islands that lie off the coast …
This week’s local meal was a simple veggie quiche made with a hodgepodge of garden veggies and local cheese.I sauteed some zucchini, red peppers, and a bit of broccoli with a couple of heads of garlic, arranged them over a bed of grated cheese in …
You’re looking at the first tomato of the season from our garden (yes, I realize it’s late August and most of you have been eating tomatoes for months, but let me have my fun!). We’ve had a few ripe ones from a plant that came …
A recent trip to the farmer’s market resulted in a large bag of baby portabello mushrooms following me home, so for this week’s OLS meal the kids and I decided it would be fun to go ahead with last week’s plan of making pasta.A quick …
No, I’m not referring to a house with plants growing on the roof like a Hobbit house (although I would love to have such a thing, I’m a hobbit at heart!).When we chose the company that we did to build our house, it was due …
I’m finding my garden posts from last year to be very useful as a gardening journal, so for future reference, here’s where things stand in the middle of August. This incredibly robust pumpkin plant just appeared near the compost bin. We have no idea what …
I had grand plans of making something really great for OLS this week, but I got busy with other things so we had to make do with a simple meal. Pasta is my mainstay for a quick dinner, but unfortunately that part of the meal …
