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What To Do With A Giant Cooking Pumpkin
Fall is the season for pumpkin everything. Pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin bagels, pumpkin candles, pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin pies- need I go on? Realistically, we all know it’s never ending. But here’s...
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Fresh Ginger & Honey Tincture
This past week has been hot. At 80 degrees, it feels like we are at the end of summer, rather than in the middle of fall and it’s completely throwing me for a loop. It reminds me distressingly of last...
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Japan Part II: Kyoto & Osaka
Japan Part II, to read Part I, go here. It’s been over a month since we headed out for Japan. Compared to other trips, coming back was relatively painless. Of course, there’s always the struggle to...
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Pumpkin Miso Soup
Several weeks ago, I wrote about pumpkins and how to roast and use up whole cooking pumpkins. One of the things that comes when roasting up whole pumpkins for puree is the “pumpkin water” that you...
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What I’m Using to Promote Wellness & A Sale!
Today has been a difficult day for many and one that most of us never really thought was coming. I suppose it’s fitting that I had planned on doing a post talking about wellness and self-care and...
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Planting Garlic in the Fall
As I’m still learning about gardening (and I suspect I, like many others, will always be learning), I have been working towards growing more food throughout the year so that it’s not just a single crop...
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Self Care During the Holidays
For the second time this week, I’ve found myself getting up at 6am to go to the gym and lift heavy things. Why? In the name of self care. For some, this may seem counterintuitive, after all, who wants...
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Making Bone Broth at Home and Buying Sustainably
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Christmas Nutmeg Log Cookies
On my mother’s side, my family have always been passionate about baking. Subsequently, we take Christmas cookies very seriously. I suspect the last time I shared a family Christmas cookie recipe was...
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Sleepy Time Tea & Cold and Flu Season Tea
As we rapidly move into Christmas, I’m finding myself busy with the final details of the holiday. The tree is up and decorated, the outside lights were strung up at the beginning of the month and all...
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Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Rosemary and Candied Oranges
Let’s not sugar coat it: I ate a lot of cookies this past month (a lot of Nutmeg Logs and Candy Cane Cookies, amongst others). Many more than I really should have and subsequently I’m grateful that I...
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31 Days to Reduce Waste & Live a More Sustainable Lifestyle
While many people may be focusing on their own health and fitness goals this month and for the year of 2017, I decided to take a slightly different approach. For January, I am focusing on improving the...
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DIY Natural Make at Home Toothpaste
In my continued series about sustainability and wasting less, I wanted to address toothpaste. Apart from the tubes being difficult to recycle (as they are usually made with #4 plastic, you first need...
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Lavender Sea Salt Truffles
The idea of making chocolate confections has always made me a little intimidated. The heating, cooling, attempting not to burn it and then somehow get it into cute little shapes aspect of it can be...
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Hawks Cay Resort in Duck Key, Florida
Last month through The Daily Meal I had the opportunity to visit Hawks Cay Resort down in the Florida Keys on the largest island in Duck Key. On an early Monday morning I flew down to warm Miami and...
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Pear, Walnut and Blue Cheese Salad
With springtime comes the inevitable influx of salad recipe creation. After a (theoretical) cold winter, full of hearty, nutrient-dense foods like pumpkins, carrots and winter kale, I find myself...
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Calming Spring Flower Tea
With spring in the air, I’ve been feeling inspired to create a flower tea blend. After the long -theoretically- cold winter, comes spring and all the plants pop up, ready to say hello. I love seeing...
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Bee Keeping & Life Updates
It’s been a while since we’ve taken a moment to catch up- to have a heart-to-heart, if you will. In February I found out that I wasn’t accepted into graduate school. After 4 years of working and going...
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Gardening Stories, Trials & Tribulations
I’m fairly certain that my gardening “technique” mirrors my life “technique”. And by that, I mean it’s largely organized chaos with far too much going on, and a general “roll with it as you go”...
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Spicy Chocolate Chip Cookies with Sea Salt
It started with a late night desire for cookies or, to be more accurate, for chocolate. While it’s only the start of September, fall is ahead of schedule and the temperatures have already started to...
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