Author: Calamity Jane
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Chicken Herder
I take back everything I said about being slow and reasonable. If you’ve been dreaming of chickens, and you have small children, go now. Build that coop. When our ladies first arrived, into my hastily thrown together crate coop and the inevitable glitches of such haste started rolling in, I felt the cold shadow of…
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Refrigerator Pickles
Wow. Nothing makes folks line up like a free anything, really smokes ’em out of the dark corners. Where have all you people been? I have to give you something (besides wise ass mama wisdom) for you to make yourselves known? Note to new commenters: stick around. Don’t be a stranger. So far 24 of…
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Review: Preserving with Friends
I got my first promo item in the mail a month ago, for review. I felt pretty big. Harriet Fasenfest, author of The Householder’s Guide to the Universe, and my ethernet mother-in-spirit, sent me her DVD called Preserving with Friends: An easy step-by-step instructional guide to putting up the harvest. She had hoped that I…
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Interview at Mama Mogantosh
Yup, my first interview. Guess I should have linked to this right off, but just thought of it. Bad blogger. That’s why I don’t get the big bucks. Mama Mogantosh did a whole series of interviews for mother’s day. All great reads. I am flattered to be included in her little cocktail of inspiring mamas.…
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Caution: Martyr in the Kitchen
Yesterday I did it again. I can’t be helped. After a few weeks of diligent survival cooking, I saw a recipe over at Food on the Food for goat gyros. I love Food on the Food. I love gyros. I had a package of ground goat in the fridge, a cucumber going soft, a vat…
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