calamity jane

Author: Calamity Jane

  • Step 1: Eat More Vegetables

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    Calamity Jane

    A few weeks ago I wrote about the changes we need to make to move towards more sustainable home lives, and how so many of those changes are built on the slow integration of deceptively simple habits like eating more vegetables (The Incredible Power of Habit). Even if you don’t yet have the time or…

  • Princess in Pink

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    Calamity Jane

    My Girl has always been fairly balanced, gender-wise. If I hadn’t had a second baby– a very boy boy whose first words were, respectively, ‘ball’ and ‘truck’– I would have smugly thought that kids just respond to the gender influences around them. My Girl liked fancy dresses and dolls, but no more than anything else.…

  • Mastering Sprouted Wheat Bread

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    Calamity Jane

    Have you ever had sprouted wheat bread? It’s known most commonly as that biblical quoting stuff they sell in the freezer at your local health food store– Ezekiel bread. I have always loved the stuff, it’s the only packaged bread that remotely interests me. It’s supposed to be much more nutritious than bread made from…

  • Book Review: The Essential Urban Farmer

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    Calamity Jane

    I love Novella Carpenter. Her first book Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer is one of my top favorite non-fiction books. She is sharp, funny and bracingly honest. When I saw she had a new ‘how-to’ book out, I could barely contain myself. Novella wrote The Essential Urban Farmer with Willow Rosenthal. It…

  • Leftover Easter Eggs to Savory Breakfast Pockets!

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    Calamity Jane

    I know you have a glut of crudely dyed eggs in your fridge. I know you’re wondering how you are going to get them all eaten before they go bad. Here’s one idea. I did this with the ones that got cracked during the dying process. Considering we have a 4yo and a 2yo, there…