Some of my favorite things about the Holidays is crafting,decorating,and baking. Unfortunately,with so much going on at school and preparing for Claire’s birthday these have been sorely neglected this year. But I am hoping to catch up after this weekend. Claire and I love making decorations for around the house. I especially [...]
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   | America’s Recycles Day is Today! So in celebration of this day,I was approached by Nature Bridge to support them in their effort to educate children (and families) about the importance of recycling. Here are a few fun facts they have provided me: The average American throws away 1,600 pounds of trash each year. That’s 4.4 pounds [...] Sorry for the delay,but I have finally downloaded the pictures from the elderberry field trip and experimented with some elderberry-cherry jelly! Here are the photos from our trip to the River Ranch owned by Wildlands Inc. We pretty much caravaned down the levee picking berries as we went. Or I should say Bill (from [...] There are 5 spots left in the Elderberry Field Trip! I have spoken further with Wildlands Inc. and YES,kids are welcome! So I should say we have room for 5 more families. Here is the basic information for or field trip:We will meet at their elderberry mitigation site Tuesday,July 27 in the [...] I can not believe that it was just four years ago that my baby boy was born! It seems like only yesterday he was tugging at my hair while falling asleep. Oh…wait…that was yesterday! He is still my baby boy. We decided to celebrate his birthday a week [...] I really did not have anything planned for the 4th of July,except making homemade quinoa mac-n-cheese for the kids. (Which they did not eat,but Mark and I ate). So I decide to go to the farmer’s market and see what I could find. There were soooo many choices it was hard to narrow [...] First we got the chickens (CLICK HERE for Urban Chickens post),then we investigated GMO foods (CLICK HERE for Got GMO-free Milk post). Now we are making a run at Grass-Fed Beef,local style. After watching the “scare you away from McDonald’s” documentary called Food Inc. earlier this year,and reading Michael Pollan’s [...] This morning we went to the first ever Oak Park Farmer’s Market. For those of you who do not know where Oak Park is,it is the original suburb of Sacramento and was built around the turn of the century (1900s). Now a days,it is considered urban Sacramento. ‘The neighborhood is home to 16,000 [...] Once March comes around I feel like I’m in a race against the weather to get the vegetable garden in. Even though we have no snow and very little frost in Sacramento,March/April is when we get most of our rain. This year we decided to create raised beds in an area we cleared last [...] So this last Sunday we have a breakfast themed family dinner. I got the idea because our neighbor brought over a huge bag of oranges from their tree and I new we would never eat them all before they went bad. So I thought we should make orange juice. Also,Claire has been struggling with [...] |  
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