where healthy meets happy
Today, we spent nearly four hours touring local, organic farms in our area. It was exciting and inspiring to meet the farmers and their families, visit a variety of crops, learn the details behind the organic techniques that protect our food and their farms and collect some great tips for caring for our own backyard gardens. At Rocky Glade Farm, they gave [...]
Last week, I shared my favorite recipe for roasting chickens. One of the best things about that recipe, besides all the great uses for the meat, is the chicken stock I get to make afterward. It’s incredibly easy and great to have on hand for adding flavor to grains and vegetables like quinoa and green beans and of [...]
I’ve been using The Fresh 20 meal plans for the last two weeks and loving them. This week, roasted chicken was on the menu. I have a few recipes I like to use, but The Fresh 20 had some new twists I hadn’t tried. I decided to blend their recipe with my own and made three chickens [...]
Almost 2 weeks after our trip to Pantall Farms, we are still enjoying the “fruits” of our labors. Ha, Ha! But seriously, picking strawberries was so much fun and I’m beyond excited that we will have this tasty strawberry freezer jam around for the next 6 months. You might be thinking, “That’s great, but canning is [...]
Strawberry season came early in Middle Tennessee this year! Strawberries are practically a food group all by themselves around here and they are crazy expensive to buy at the grocery store – especially when out of season. A pound of organic strawberries can run up to $4.o0. Of course, we can get frozen for cheaper and do, but this [...]
