Book Review: Better Off

Book Reviews, Simple Living

In his excellent book Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology, Eric Brende, then a MIT grad student studying the costs and benefits of technology, undertook an 18 month experiment with his new wife to leave Boston and go live in a Mennonite community without...

My Favorite Meatloaf Recipe

Grass Fed Beef, Grass Fed Lamb, Recipes

Sometimes a recipe comes along that is so wonderful that it spoils you from making any other way, no matter how badly you want to. I have a recipe that falls deeply into this category: meatloaf. Sounds crazy, I know, but since I adapted this recipe from the The...

Everyone Loves Free Range Chicken

Free Range Chicken

With 175 potentially delicious girls out on pasture it was only a matter of time before all the skunks, raccoons, red fox, hawks and dogs came out for a dinner of chicken. We lost a few girls two nights in a row and knew we needed some added protection for our...

Simple Living Through Ironing (yes, you read that right)

Simple Living

As I tackled a mountain of ironing recently, I thought about how, in a roundabout way, ironing could fall into our Simple Living category.At first glance, of course, it seems obvious that the simplest way to iron is to….avoid ironing! You could buy clothes and...

Humanely Raised, Pastured Veal

Sustainable Farming

As the New York Times article trumpeted in “Veal to Love, Without the Guilt,” there is finally a way to enjoy veal without the guilt of knowing that the meat on your plate came from an animal that lived in the most deplorable conditions practiced. When our...