Easy Tomato Sauce and Salsa Recipes

A couple of weeks ago I was bemoaning the fact that my tomatoes weren’t ripening.  Guess I should be careful what I wish for because now I have more beautiful Romas, cherry tomatoes and Best Boys than I know what to do with!  A good problem to have.  We have made two huge batches of salsa [...]

A Week of Eating Local

Here is a great article by my friend and manager of our food co-op pickup site, Chelsey Simpson.  She is the managing editor of Oklahoma Living magazine and does a great job of including local food items in every issue with recipes by local chef and founder of OKC Slow Foods, Kamala Gamble.  So read [...]

Sustainability on Film

The local Sierra Club chapter is hosting a week of Sustainability on Film at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art in September.  Check the website for details.  www.okcmoa.com/film  Its a great  lineup of films addressing issues such as commercial agriculture and its antithesis, the local foods movement, green building and the origins of Earth Day, [...]

Cudos to the Oklahoma Food Cooperative

It never ceases to amaze me.  How do they manage to pull this off month after month?
The Oklahoma Food Cooperative is truly a thing of beauty.  Its an all volunteer organization (well, they may have one part-time paid employee now, I’m not really sure to be honest with you).  It was the brain child of [...]

Great stuff on GMO’s READ THIS!!!

http://www.squidoo.com/nomogmo#module27649182
gotta rush out the door but found this series of articles that looks like good information on GMOs.

NYTimes.com: You Say Tomato, I Say Agricultural Disaster

This is a sobering article.  All the more reason to re-skill so we know how to germinate our own seeds, or know the person who did.   I especially like his recommendation to buy starter plants that are locally grown.  I tried starting my own tomatoes from seeds and, as you know, had bad results.  But the [...]

Its Not All About the Money

I ran across this video today while checking in on one of my favorite sites: Little Homestead in the City.  Its a great statement on living a life of simplicity and living for what is important, not what big money media tells us should be.

From there I looked to see what else Free [...]

Lagging Behind

Wow, its been two weeks since I posted anything. 
We finally got the kitchen all put back together this weekend.  The cabinet doors are back up and everything is back in the drawers.  It was really a pain with everything in laundry baskets in other rooms!  Having to track down a clean towel or some tool.  [...]

No More Guilt!

I have a collection of canvas bags that I like to take to the grocery store.  I was really good about taking them actually INSIDE the store with me when the enthusiasm was new.  Now they get taken out of the car for one reason or another and not returned or I forget to take [...]

Garden Looking Good

I forgot the before picture, but here is the after. 

Just use your imagination and picture plain dirt adorned with lots of weeds and grass that were getting to be a real hassle.  So, I mulched the strawberry beds with compost and hopefully that will be not only the end of my grass worries but also [...]