Fort Collins, CO
This weekend we went on the Northern Colorado Urban Homestead Tour. The tour was a fundraiser for The Gardens[...]
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Voluntary Simplicity
Fort Collins, CO
It's been nearly two months of Sundays since I decided to go screen-free every Sunday as part of my 30 Before 30 goals. Two months later, I am still in love with the idea of having a day where I don't check email, Facebook or In[...]
Monday marked the end of our self-imposed carless month, and we celebrated with a drive to the landfill to take last month's trash.I'm not sure that I've mentioned it before, but one of the happy side-effects of buying very little pre-made foods[...]
Nantucket, MA
Whenever I make apple butter, I always think of my brother Brandon. Growing up, I never really liked apple butter, but he loved it. Chris loves it too, and I've come around enough to eat my own apple butter, so it's generally a fall traditio[...]
It felt a little funny not to post yesterday about what I am thankful for. I very much enjoyed my 30 day thankfulness project and the fact that, even on less than easy or "bad" days (of which there were only two), I was still able to[...]
Nantucket, MA
As we consider the necessity of a car here on our little island, now ten days into our great experiment, I've been thinking a lot more about voluntary simplicity and living lightly upon the earth, not just for environmental reasons, but also f[...]