I finished the first draft of Lydia, which I knew was approximately step 10 in a 5,000-step journey. I’ve published two books before, a children’s book and a cookbook, along with multiple digital downloads, so I’m not completely new to publishing. But this feels entirely different. There is a rather enormous distance between “I wrote…
Right before we moved to Michigan in 2015, I hosted a murder mystery party with my family and we had SO much fun. The problem was finding a good game for 14 people. They were expensive, you could really only play them once, and the host had to know everything beforehand. So the person who…
Let me start by saying I am not a homesteader. I don’t live on 40 acres, milk a cow before breakfast, or possess several very important skills I assume I’ll need if society collapses. But over the past several years, Ammon and I have become increasingly interested in learning how to do things for ourselves….
People ask what we use out in the garden, so I’m going to share the tools and seeds that I used this year. Truth is, you do not need a shed full of gear to grow food. You need dirt, water, seeds, and a willingness to be wrong about things for a couple of seasons….
Have you ever heard of the story of the ants and the grasshopper? The ants spend all year preparing and storing food in their home while the grasshoppers stand by and relax and laugh at them… well winter comes and the grasshoppers freeze and the ants feast. It’s a pretty sad story, but I haven’t…
I started gardening because I wanted to grow food. That was pretty much it. I liked the idea of becoming more self-sufficient, knowing where some of our food came from and being a little less dependent on the grocery store. I thought I was building garden beds to grow tomatoes and cucumbers and zucchini. I…
When I looked up how much real Delft tiles cost, a little piece of my heart died. I’m talking $80 a tile. And I needed over 100 tiles for a whole backsplash. My dream kitchen priced itself right out of my budget before I’d even started. I sat with that disappointment for a while because…
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