Real Food Progress Reports

Okay Real Foodies! It’s time to update your progress if you’ve continued with any aspects of last month’s challenge. We want to know what habits you kept, what you learned, what you’ve changed or how you feel! Let us know what didn’t work or what you would change to keep going. Reply to this post and [...]

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Making Amends with your Soil: Cover Crops

 With more and more people gardening for the first times of their lives, so many people are waging war on their soil. STOP! Don’t use that nasty chemical fertilizer. Set it down and slowly step away from the Miracle Grow. That’s it, back up nice and easy. We can teach you how to amend your [...]

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Foraging for Wild Food

Here at Chiot’s Run, we love finding foods that we can forage from the wild without having to cultivate them. Each year we learn more and more about wild edible plants and we’re enjoying the nutritional benefits they add to our diet. It can be an overwhelming and scary thing to learn about wild foraged [...]

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Sewing 101 – Patterns

First off I want to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who posted a comment last time.  You all sure know how to make the “new girl” feel welcome! This week I’ll be talking more in-depth about one of my favorite aspects of sewing – patterns!!!  That is the time when I start to dream of my closet [...]

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KRAFT helping promote gardening with Home FARMING?

When I was vising the Pioneer Woman’s website last week I saw and advertisement under her home and garden section for ‘home farming’.  It is a site sponsored by ‘triscuit’ aka Nabisco aka Kraft Foods.  I was curious so I followed the link and went to look around. Here is what they say on the [...]

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Sunday Photos….Springtime Activities

Springtime is a flurry of activity in most areas of the world. It’s time to plant, weed, harvest, amend, clean, and so much more. Here are some photos showing what we’re all up to here in our respective lives. ***** Here are Chiot’s Run it’s a busy time. This time of year I start to [...]

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Red Lentil and Cabbage Slow Cooker Soup

Sometimes its just nice to get everything done early in the day so you can go out and play in the garden without having to back in the house to check on things all the time. That is where my slow cooker comes in… Yesterday I made a batch of red lentil/cabbage soup that we [...]

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What will you do?

Last night I finally got to watch Food Inc.! My mother was the first to tell me about it months ago. Then Kim went temporarily insane and challenged the whole dang world to eat better by nixing all processed foods. Ha! I was the first to jump on board. You see, I also went temporarily [...]

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Cleaning out the Pantry

Spring cleaning not only applies to the house, but also to the pantry! This is the time of year when I start to make a concerted effort to eat up goods the goods I preserved last summer. Soon enough I’ll be pulling out the canning pots and filing jars with this summer’s bounty and packing [...]

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New bees arrive after Colony Collapse Disorder

As a farmer you get used to the rhythm of the natural world. Animals are born and others die…it is the way of things. You may be saddened but you know that it is the way it is supposed to be… This is not something that is remotely in nature’s rhythm. We have lost 7 different [...]

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