More and More People are Getting Back to Gardening It’s happening for a variety of reasons. For some of you it’s all about having control over the quality of the food you eat. For others it’s also about having a source of food beyond what’s available in the local...
What’s Your Favorite Homemade Soup? If I had to choose an all-time favorite soup from my childhood it would be homemade cream of potato soup. No one could make it like my Grandma, and whenever I visited, I would request it. And if I was home from school...
When I was a youngster, I read a folktale called Stone Soup. I was so impressed with the cleverness of this story I never forgot it. It’s the tale of a tired and hungry traveler, who enters a small village with nothing but an empty cooking pot and a stone. He sits up...
What does Made From Scratch Mean? When I was learning to cook, we used fresh ingredients and combined them to make the dishes we were going to serve. Pre-packaged meals and mixes were just becoming popular as time-savers, but were still expensive. You may remember the...
There’s a reason home remedies stay around for decades. It’s because they tend to work. My grandfather was a woodsman and naturalist, and my father served with the Medics during WWII, so I’ve had quite a few home remedies passed down to me over the years....
It’s that time of year. The end of summer draws near and you want to prep and store as much of your garden produce as possible to use in the coming months. For those of you with your first-time-ever garden, you’ve probably found yourself with enough tomatoes and...
Being outside in nature is the most basic part of who I am. Besides gaining knowledge about wildlife, I learn lessons about who I am, and surprise myself about what I am capable of achieving. Nature continually inspires me. It is a part of all my writings, no matter the genre or subject matter.
Being outside in nature is the most basic part of who I am. Besides gaining knowledge about wildlife, I learn lessons about who I am, and surprise myself about what I am capable of achieving. Nature continually inspires me. It is a part of all my writings, no matter the genre or subject matter. 
