A Radical Homemaker’s Take on Investing January 15, 2013 Tags: gainful unemployment, radical homemaking, Tuesday Post Bob’s mandolin: Our idea of a “sound investment.” I received a phone call recently from someone in the media, who introduced himself by way of exclaiming “Is it true that you have a family of four and live on […]
Getting Saucy: Stretching Your Meat Budget with Gravies and Reductions
By Shannon Hayes I’m not sure where it all started. Maybe it was back during the Norman Conquest. But no matter how you look at, in spite of their relative cooperation and neighborliness since the Crimean war, the French and the English still have a major long- running dispute: the best way to dress a […]
12 Books for the Holidays
With Christmas right around the corner, a few of you may be looking for some possible gift ideas, while others of you might be looking for some good suggestions for library books to check out during your holiday break. The real cheap skates among you may even be looking for library book suggestions that you […]
Hurricane Samhain
Hurricane Samhain October 29, 2012 Tags: family farming, radical homemaking, Tuesday Post Our Samhain Altar will hopefully be lit each night this week, in spite of the hurricane. This week’s Tuesday Post is appearing early as we ready ourselves for Hurricane Sandy. If technology allows, I’ll post updates as we work our way through the […]
The Creative Bubble
October 16, 2012 When I sit down to write, it seems as if time goes into suspension. I’m unaware of my next obligation, of the dogs gnawing their bones beside me, of the hum of the refrigerator. I forget about my last argument with my mother (unless, of course, I’m writing about it), about what’s […]
Can We Eat Meat in an Ecological and Economic Crisis? Yes.
Can we eat meat in an ecological and economic crisis? Yes. October 9, 2012 Tags: radical homemaking, grassfed cooking, grassfed meat, sustainable agriculture, Tuesday Post Thirty-plus years as grassfed meat farmers has taught my family to anticipate unpredictability. One minute we’re in floods. The next, drought. One minute livestock farmers are accused of being cruel […]
Sirloin Tip: Juicy Steak for Lean Times
Sirloin Tip: Juicy Steak for Lean Times August 15, 2012 Tags: grassfed cooking, Tuesday Post Just a few weeks remain before the release of my newest cookbook, Long Way on a Little, which focuses on helping home cooks stretch their meat dollars as far as possible. Perhaps it is a reflection of these hard economic […]
Sidestepping the Upsell
Bob and I had the delight a few weeks ago of sharing our day at our farmers’ market with a young man who is preparing to go into grassfed farming. He worked closely with my mom and dad to understand the production end of the farm, then chose to spend a day with Bob and […]
The Other Side of Gainful Unemployment
Earning a living from multiple enterprises can occasionally feel like a tangled mess. “Today, I will do one thing at a time.” These are the words I’ve been saying to myself each morning lately as I leap from my bed. I mindlessly repeat them while at the same time working through what time homeschool lessons […]
Acting Out
Acting Out May 24, 2012 Tags: parenting Maybe intervention isn’t always the answer. Saoirse and Ula are three years apart. Saoirse, 8, is unusually tall, slender, well-spoken, and comes across to grown-ups as particularly well-behaved and extraordinarily poised. Ula isn’t any of those things. At 5, she’s about a foot shorter than her sister, demonstrates […]
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