My homemade shelves found a new purpose! The shelves were originally built to showcase canned and fermented foods in our dining area. A ye...

Glögg is a Nordic mulled wine that is optionally spiked with stronger alcohol. A friend of mine's grandparents basically do a glögg ba...

A friend of ours recently left Colorado to travel the world and teach English. Her first destination will be Nicaragua. In the process of l...

Just in case we ever need a survivalist stash of paracord, there is some wrapped around our hanging plant... But really, this was a fun cra...

Bigos is an Eastern European stew made of cabbage and various meats.  Its alternate name is hunter's stew.  Shall we call the vegetaria...

We finished redoing our back porch!  It was quite an eyesore and a safety hazard when we bought our house 2 years ago.  Some of the columns ...

Everybody likes to talk about rhubarb when it first makes its debut in the spring. Our winter appetites long for something fresh so we acce...

Feeling thankful for the thicket of arugula growing along the side of our new patio!

Way back on Father's Day in June, Eric brewed this oatmeal milk stout and infused it with herbs that promote lactation - fennel, anise...

A few weeks ago we picked up 30 pounds of plums from a friend with a plum tree. The plum tree was still weighed down with plums when we lef...