About Tricia

I am Tricia. Momma of nine, homeschooler, artist, foodie and maker of all kinds of things. It's a pleasure to share here our family homesteading adventures, the things we make, and what inspires our days. Read more about my family and work here. Thanks for visiting!

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Happy Earth Day… Save the Humans

By on April 20, 2010 in giveaways, Greenie-ness, Save The Humans

I love Earth Day but it really ticks me off when I see that some big box store who doesn’t give a darn about anything other than their bottom line, is making a big deal about Earth Day.  I think that those of us who are really green have been that way since before it was something to wear on your t-shirt.  If you are new to “being green” then that is great and really none of this is directed towards you, rather at the money making machine the environmental movement has become.

I think (and of course this is just my tiny, little opinion) that if you start with you, you can make a bigger difference to everyone else, including the planet, starting with what you put into you.  If you focus on that which nourishes you and your family, then the rest will follow.

OK enough with the speeches, this week I will be hosting Save the Humans!!!

Every day this week, I will post a way to green up our bodies, detoxify and clean up the pollutants that even newborn babies are born with these days because of the toxic world we live in.

In the next few days I will be blogging about the science experiments that live in my cupboards, kefir, kombucha and water kefir.  You will also find me blogging about one of my inspirations because of their self sufficiency.  I hope to host some other green mama bloggers and on Earth Day I will be having a give-away of your choice of milk kefir grains, water kefir grains or a kombucha scoby with instructions on how you can make them at home.  I will be posting the rules for the giveaway, in the meantime just make sure you visit me this week and as usual, I LOVE THE COMMENTS.

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Living the good life

By on April 18, 2010 in Moss Flower Farm

Life on a suburban farm has a rhythm, a predictability factor.  There is always something that must be done, chickens and ducks must be fed,  garden must be watered, the weeds cannot be ignore (too long anyway).  Living here has taught me to slow down and enjoy the good things,  the sounds of crickets, the pitch black night sky lit up by the brightest stars I have ever seen.  The amazing loudness of peace and quiet.

Everyday you can count on the same things happening followed by new and exciting developments.  I love that we can pick our lunch from the garden and fish our dinner from the pond.  That we can stop and let the fast world pass us by under an oak tree and when I am ready to join the ever moving, never pausing world, it is still there to jump back into.

It is in the small things that I most delight, a breeze on a long work day in the garden, a fresh tomato warmed by the sun, a beautiful baby taking her nap in a hammock under a might oak tree.

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