I was looking forward to my holiday “staycation” this year to focus on some homesteading type projects. While I know that using fancy mechanized appliances is not quite homesteading, one of my goals was to make my own sausages. I own a nice Kitchen Aid mixer that I have used a few times to make cookies and some extra messy butter making events. I was lured by holiday adverts for all the amazing accessories for [...]

Two cans of tuna, 1 can of sliced olives, two cloves of garlic, grated Parmesan (the good stuff), toasted raw sunflower seeds, extra virgin olive oil, fresh ground pepper and dried home grown parley. Blended in a mixer and tossed with some farfalle pasta. Serves 4

Absolutely thrilled to record 62 MPG in the old Honda Insight on my trip to Cincinnati today. Now enjoying a stroll through the Farmer’s Fair in Covington. We listened to the inspiring Ed Begley Jr. speak; Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live. Stacy and I are having a great [...]

It was a perfect day to escape cube-life and garden at work! There are over 320 Associates participating in the gardens this season. They swooped in and cleaned up their 40″ x 12′ raised beds and many planted cool season crops. In several weeks we will start harvesting fast growing [...]

I had the chance enjoy a forest full of wildflowers just steps from my office… I took a lovely walk through our Scotts Miracle-Gro Campus Arboretum yesterday and found hundreds of Red Trillium getting ready to bloom. There are also an abundance of Virginia Bluebells, Troutlilly, and very interesting looking [...]

So, you have some home grown celery that is loaded with beautiful, crisp, healthy leaves. You don’t want to send them straight to the compost bin do you? No, of course not. I grabbed a small handful and gently tearing added them to my trusty shaker. To this I added [...]