As much as I love sending care packages, the postage expense keeps me from doing it terribly often. I have learned, however; how to make the most of an envelope and a stamp. You can tuck many a thing inside a letter and still keep the weight under an ounce. You can easily tuck small [...]
I’m getting ready for the seed swap. It’s a little over a month away, but those days are going to be packed with teaching classes on worm composting and canning and my own garden work. So I’m doing what I can now to hopefully avoid a serious rush later. While I hope to host a very [...]
We’re on the hunt for a new kitchen table. We have been for a little while, but nothing has struck our fancy quite yet. We currently have an oval shaped table and I’ve never liked in this house. The shape is just too large and strange for the space. I looked through the weekly sale rag [...]
It’s all well and good to have a plan for stocking your pantry but you also need to have the space. Our current home, is just shy of 1,200 square feet which is about perfect for us, but like most modern homes the pantry space is terrible. In the beginning of our lives together Jeff [...]
In thinking about how I keep my pantry shelves stocked, I notice that I do a good bit of sale shopping (when not on the 6-month no grocery challenge, that is). I keep a price book, and have for years, so I know a good deal when I see one. If you don’t already keep [...]
Our pantry is stocked with lots of home preserved foods. In fact, the foods we put up are as important to us as the food we buy in bulk. The two work together in a way that keep us healthy and provide enough variety that we don’t get too bored with our rather simple meals. [...]
I’ve had a few folks ask me about how we prepared for the 6-month no grocery challenge. To be honest, we didn’t do anything (beyond buy walnuts for potica) different than we normally do in terms of stocking our pantry. The goal behind the challenge has been to use up what we had stored and to [...]
If you’ve been reading Two Frog Home for any length of time, you know that we do a lot of canning around here. A lot. I don’t buy lids from the local grocery stores, as buying them one box at a time is just outrageously expensive considering the amount I go through. Several years back, [...]
Operation Organize Garage commenced over the weekend and oh my what difference! We bought some new shelving and now the jars are all neat & organized (forgive the blurry photo, its a poorly lit room): Having it all organized just makes me so very happy. So happy, that I finished using up the remaining chicken [...]
One thing I’m perpetually unhappy with in our garden is how we mark / identify plants. I’ve just never found a system that I like. I’ve seen all the “fancy” systems and tags in the catalogs but to be honest, I’ve just always thought those were too expensive. I’ve tried everything from rocks to popsicle sticks and [...]
