Note from Dena… Hi, friends! Today’s guest post is on a topic that I am so excited to begin to explore, bread making. I have been wanting to learn to make my own bread forever. My favorite bread is sour dough, so when my sweet and talented friend, Jean, offered to bring us a guest post on how to make a sourdough starter, I was over the moon! Enjoy this…
food + nutrition
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Naturally Boosting Your Immunity // Nature > Chemicals
The issues of health and immunity are hot topics right now for obvious reasons. Navigating the decisions that we make for ourselves and our families at this time in history can be incredibly difficult and overwhelming. Over the course of the next few weeks, I…
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Physical Wellness: Balanced Nutrition
Hello, friends! Happy Monday. I hope that you had a lovely weekend. It was a good one, but also a strange one, for me. The weather was beautiful, the early spring that nature has been hinting at seems to be sticking around. We started working…
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Time Management: Meal Planning
As you’ll soon notice, I’ve been having a lot of fun with bullet-journaling. In addition to helping with time management and organization, I love that it’s encouraging me to get creative and start drawing which has been on my wishful to-do list for years. As…
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Chicken Keeping for Beginners
Keeping backyard chickens is a wonderful experience. Chickens are sweet and low maintenance, with a few caveats which I’ll share below. I absolutely adore our chickens. They are my sweet girls. They are beautiful, and of the four that we have had since May, three…
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Whole Foods for Health
As someone who struggled with my weight for the first half of my life, it breaks my heart to see others going through that pain. I was overweight from the time I was twelve-years-old until I was about twenty-two. Then during both of my pregnancies,…
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A Field-to-Table Hunting Experience: Thoughts on Eating Meat
This post is a bit out of the ordinary for me. While I often focus on plant-based living & nutrition, today I am going to talk about eating meat & hunting. So, if you are interested to read these thoughts, please read on. A couple…
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An Easy Weeknight Meal with Village Harvest
Thank you Village Harvest for sponsoring this post. Every day Village Harvest is planting seeds of change and growing possibilities, one bag of goodness at a time. Hello, friends! I am so excited to share today’s post with you because it features my new favorite…
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How to Dye Easter Eggs Naturally
With Easter coming up this weekend, we decided to dye some eggs today. I have been wanting to try my hand at dyeing eggs naturally for a few years now and I was so grateful to finally have the space and opportunity to do it.…