Romanesco broccoli
I had never heard of it. The organic, heirloom seed company I buy my seeds from sent me the seeds in the spring, free for ordering other seeds. I […]
Tag Archives: healthy eating
Remember that trellis I named Encouragement?
It’s 9′ tall. Calling it Encouragement worked, and so did good non-GMO seeds, and lots of water and good aged horse manure as fertilizer. (Also continuously getting rid of as […]
Sometimes you just need a neat kitchen gadget!
Got zucchini? I don’t, cos I didn’t plant any, but I will next year. Luckily I have a local source with plenty of good ones that are also inexpensive. […]
Almost 4 years……….
2/11 will be 4 years that this old opinionated hippie chick has been rambling along, and more to come. Thanks to so many dedicated readers who follow along, comment and […]
Just a few green beans……
I just picked just a small handful of green beans, and lots more coming planted in two places. These are heirloom pole beans, which means they aren’t a hybrid bean […]
Collard Greens
These 64 years I have never eaten collard greens. For some reason I thought there was something not tasty about them, or tough, or whatever stories I had heard, that turned out […]
Chickens in Shippensburg!
Many people are interested in greener living, more sustainable living, healthier living. People are interested in going back to some basics: more people are growing their own food, looking for […]
Meatless Monday
Being diabetic has caused me to think about food and health in lots of different ways. I lost a husband to diabetes many years ago. He had diabetes since […]
New foods, new ideas
Soooo, my friend who is doing the Vegan diet for a month brought me some of one of her meals to try. There was guacamole with black olives in it, […]
A new diet……and black rice!
Having had a blood test that showed my blood sugar to have been high for 3 months, I had to make some changes. Now in a while I’ll go to […]
Sarasin's thoughts....... 