Maple Syrup – How It Is Made

Eat Local, Real Food

Maple Syrup begins as sap in a maple tree. The sap is harvested in the spring when temperatures rise into the 40s during the day and cool off into the 20s at night. It takes a very special place for the conditions to be just right. The sugaring season, as it is...

Maple Syrup

Eat Local, Real Food

There are times when I get so disappointed in the success of media hype and food masquerading that I could just… scream. Not much is sadder that the marketing campaign against maple syrup and how we have been duped into believing that the imitation is better...

Book Review: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Book Reviews, Eat Local, Simple Living, Sustainable Farming

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is Barbara Kingsolver’s memoir of the first year her family experimented with eating ONLY locally-grown foods. In order to abide by their agreed-upon rules, she and her family began growing more of their own food...

Simple Living: Renew Your Mind

Simple Living

In the pursuit of simple living, it’s important to remember why exactly you’re attempting to slow down and lead a more deliberate life. Often growing your own vegetables, hanging out your laundry, baking your own bread and other valuable simple pursuits...

Eric Brende Interview

Simple Living

If you’ve read Better Off or were just intrigued by the idea of such radically simple living, you might be interested in the above video clip of a recent television interview with the Brendes, who now live in St. Louis and are applying their idea of simple...

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...