Mark & Beth's Homegrown Adventure
We're learning how to live more sustainably at home in the suburbs. Come along and learn with us!
Category: Reduce Reuse Recycle
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Season of Renewal
When I started this blog, my goal was to update it weekly in the hope of building a following. But life got messy, and I told myself monthly would be okay. But life got messier, and here I am, not having posted since October. The truth is, my inspiration has been low. We’ve continued to
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Getting Creative with Container Gardening
If you’ve seen any of my previous posts on gardening, you’ll know that this is our first year of really going all in on planting. The goal was to save money on groceries and to learn a new skill. However, saving money during your first year (or really any year) gardening, takes a lot of
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August Garden Update!
A lot has happened since our July garden update. It’s weird that I don’t feel like we’ve gotten a ton to harvest, but when I was collecting pictures for this post, I realized that really, while we haven’t had an abundance of anything in particular, we have indeed eaten a lot of different things that
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Three-Ingredient Wild Blackberry Jam
Mark and I were hiking down a trail we’d never checked out before in our local park, hoping to come across some chanterelle or oyster mushrooms (no such luck yet, but I have hope). Instead, among a forest of poison ivy, we found brambles on brambles of wild blackberry bushes! My first thought was a
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Wild Wines
I’m at that point in the spring where I just seem to be anxiously awaiting my plants to grow. We’ve harvested just a few small things (more on that next time), but are otherwise just watering, watching, and waiting. WWW. Well, another “W” I’ve been working on in the meantime is wine. A while back,
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How We’re Saving Money when Starting the Garden (Hopefully)
The primary motivation behind us starting this garden (as well as foraging and reusing what we can) is to save money. There are a lot of other good benefits (mental and physical health, helping the environment and native pollinators), but if I had to pick the top reason, it’s the money. But if you’ve ever
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