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Elderberry Field Trip

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 morning at 10:00 [...]

Elderberries!!! Come with me to the Harvest!

I am so excited! Thanks to the wonderful people at Wildlands Inc. I have arranged for 10 lucky people to attend an elderberry harvesting field trip on one of their mitigation sites. “Wildlands is a habitat development, land management, and environmental planning company with projects throughout the Western and Southeastern United States. Established in 1991, Wildlands [...]

Week Night Reversible Dress

I have been wanting to make Claire this reversible Candy Stripes dress for about 3 months now. Ever since I got Absolutely A-Line: 1 Easy Pattern = 26 Adorable Dresses for Girls  But I kept putting it off. I don’t have the time to sit down a make a dress in one shot. Finally, I decided it [...]

Last Minute Four of July Crisp

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 things [...]

Congrats! You’ve won Earth Mama, Angel Baby!

Congratulations Sandra! Claire has pulled your name out of the cup to win the Earth Mama, Angel Baby giveaway! I will send you an email with a link to redeem your prize. Thanks to everyone who participated.  For those of you who did not win, you can check out their wonder full products by CLICKING HERE. [...]

Mark’s Meat Matrix: Grass Fed Beef

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

The Omnivores [...]

Father’s Day Potluck Bourbon BBQ

We celebrated an early Father’s Day with Mark’s family on Sunday with a great bourbon and cherry inspired potluck BBQ. Fresh organic cherries were only $3.00 per pound at the farmer’s market this week and we also have plenty of bourbon left over from Mark’s birthday dinner at the Grange restaurant in Sacramento, so I thought [...]

Sewing for Spring!

So about a month ago my friend Blithe (Hi, Blithe!) got together for a day of sewing! We were very focused and only stopped to pick up the kids at school and eventually to feed them dinner (sort of, Mark really helped out there). We each got about 80% of the way done with these cute [...]

Oak Park Farmer’s Market

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 residents, [...]

Last Minute Mother’s Day

Here’s to moms, especially mine!

So I am always late getting out a post right before a holiday. Maybe because it gets so crazy around here. This last month of school there seems to be an “event” everyday! The garden always needs tending. The Guinea Ginny has a respiratory infection. We are spending Mother’s Day weekend in [...]