Marie-Madeline Studio
I wanted to let everyone know about the sale going on at Marie-Madeline Studio this week. It's different fabric every day. Sign up for their newsletter to find out what that is daily or just visit their blog.
Funny how God leads you somewhere. I love the fabric and patterns that Marie-Madeline Studio carries. And I started looking at their links on their blog tonight. I came across the blog, Ah the Life. Well, it just so happens that one of the recent posts is an interview with The Long Family aka Marie-Madeline Studio. Okay. I don't know if everyone knows this yet or not but my husband and I believe that a wife is the keeper of the home. Not that I'm home yet. But we're still working things out. Anyways, so does the Long family and I'm pretty sure they think children are a blessing from God. Check out the post and see!
I want to sew so bad. I am trying to get up enough nerve to actually buy more fabric. You see, I want to sew some skirts for myself. And then hopefully make a few to sell at Cotton Ginning Days in about a month. I know we'll probably have handmade goat milk soap, lip balm, crocheteed and knitted items, and hopefully some handmade sewn items.
Definitely stop by Marie-Madeline Studio to check out their fabulous fabric, patterns, and handmade items.
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Food and Life Go Hand In Hand
I am feeding my son good wholesome food. REAL FOOD. Food that God made and not some imitation that somebody is trying to get rich off of. Here's the link to how we are feeding our son. We are going by the Weston A. Price website when introducing certain foods.
So, of course, I'm trying to teach my parents to understand this. They are helping to keep my son during the summer months. With that, they are feeding him solid foods and I'm making sure it's the foods that I find acceptable. Well, my parents are older, 66 and 72 years old. My mom in the past few months just started taking blood pressure medicine and cholesterol medicine. I find that unacceptable. Not because I don't want her healthy but because those medicines won't help her stay healthy. I was searching on the Weston A. Price website yesterday trying to find articles with information that I could show them helping them to realize that she needs to stop taking the medicine. I found some things, thank God. If you go by those articles I found my mother didn't/doesn't have high cholesterol at all. And using that medicine could totally be disastrous for her health. With them watching Riley and having to feed him healthy real food, maybe this will change the way they eat.
This is the articles from the Weston A. Price website that I showed my parents about cholesterol.
Low Cholesterol
Myths and Truths about Cholesterol pamplet
Cholesterol: Friend or Foe?
Benefits of High Cholesterol
I stopped by my local, very small branch library yesterday to look for some books that I might show my parents about nourishing traditional food. I didn't find anything that I'd already read. So, I still got some things but it was for me, not them. Most of what I checked out was cookbooks. They seemed to be older cookbooks that hopefully had some traditional recipes in them. I haven't looked through them much yet. I did get this one book that Food Renegade recommends called, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life." It is a very fascinating read and I'm only on page 16. Crazy, huh? It honestly touches me because it is so close to home for us. We're farmers, not always the best ones. But, we live and learn every day of our lives. And we rely on God to sustain us and help our crops grow. We really rely on Him in so many more ways than that but that's a good starting point. I can't wait to finish reading it. probably by the end of the weekend if I can find some free time. Also, I checked in over at the Food Renegade website this morning and found an amazing post, "Lessons on Real Food from 100 Years Ago." There is a book she talks about that she's reading right now. The book she is referring to in the post is "Graded Lessons in Physiology and Hygiene" by William O. Krohn, M.D., Ph.D. That link for the book goes to the whole book on Google Books if you'd like to read it online. Once I read the quotes from the book in her post, I knew I had to search for it. It makes total sense. It is so funny how what we as Real Food Renegades know now, they also knew 100 years ago. Funny how it's all pretty much common sense.
So, of course, I'm trying to teach my parents to understand this. They are helping to keep my son during the summer months. With that, they are feeding him solid foods and I'm making sure it's the foods that I find acceptable. Well, my parents are older, 66 and 72 years old. My mom in the past few months just started taking blood pressure medicine and cholesterol medicine. I find that unacceptable. Not because I don't want her healthy but because those medicines won't help her stay healthy. I was searching on the Weston A. Price website yesterday trying to find articles with information that I could show them helping them to realize that she needs to stop taking the medicine. I found some things, thank God. If you go by those articles I found my mother didn't/doesn't have high cholesterol at all. And using that medicine could totally be disastrous for her health. With them watching Riley and having to feed him healthy real food, maybe this will change the way they eat.
This is the articles from the Weston A. Price website that I showed my parents about cholesterol.
Low Cholesterol
Myths and Truths about Cholesterol pamplet
Cholesterol: Friend or Foe?
Benefits of High Cholesterol
I stopped by my local, very small branch library yesterday to look for some books that I might show my parents about nourishing traditional food. I didn't find anything that I'd already read. So, I still got some things but it was for me, not them. Most of what I checked out was cookbooks. They seemed to be older cookbooks that hopefully had some traditional recipes in them. I haven't looked through them much yet. I did get this one book that Food Renegade recommends called, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life." It is a very fascinating read and I'm only on page 16. Crazy, huh? It honestly touches me because it is so close to home for us. We're farmers, not always the best ones. But, we live and learn every day of our lives. And we rely on God to sustain us and help our crops grow. We really rely on Him in so many more ways than that but that's a good starting point. I can't wait to finish reading it. probably by the end of the weekend if I can find some free time. Also, I checked in over at the Food Renegade website this morning and found an amazing post, "Lessons on Real Food from 100 Years Ago." There is a book she talks about that she's reading right now. The book she is referring to in the post is "Graded Lessons in Physiology and Hygiene" by William O. Krohn, M.D., Ph.D. That link for the book goes to the whole book on Google Books if you'd like to read it online. Once I read the quotes from the book in her post, I knew I had to search for it. It makes total sense. It is so funny how what we as Real Food Renegades know now, they also knew 100 years ago. Funny how it's all pretty much common sense.
Food Renegade Contest!
I know I haven't posted in awhile. I guess really good contests make me wanna post. Well, actually it's the fact that I get to enter the contest by blogging about the contest. How cool, I know!
So, Food Renegade is having a contest right now where you can win a free hour of nutrition and wellness coaching. It is really cool. I seem to be right where I was when I first learned about Weston A Price and eating nourishing food. I can't seem to tackle it. I keep trying and I keep screwing it up. I want to be strictly WAP but I can't seem to stop eating fast food. We are always in such a hurry. Working, farming, running errands, and also taking care of Riley leaves so little time for actually cooking real nutritious food. We have learned so much over the past 6 months. It's honestly just so amazing how we look at food now. We are slowly adding in nourishing traditions to our everyday lives. But it takes time to actually implement these things. So, go check out the post over at the Food Renegade website.
So, Food Renegade is having a contest right now where you can win a free hour of nutrition and wellness coaching. It is really cool. I seem to be right where I was when I first learned about Weston A Price and eating nourishing food. I can't seem to tackle it. I keep trying and I keep screwing it up. I want to be strictly WAP but I can't seem to stop eating fast food. We are always in such a hurry. Working, farming, running errands, and also taking care of Riley leaves so little time for actually cooking real nutritious food. We have learned so much over the past 6 months. It's honestly just so amazing how we look at food now. We are slowly adding in nourishing traditions to our everyday lives. But it takes time to actually implement these things. So, go check out the post over at the Food Renegade website.
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Giveaway: 3 Free Starter Cultures
I often read Cheeseslave.com's Blog. And today I came across her post about the Giveaway of 3 Free Starter cultures: Sourdough, Kombucha, Yogurt, and more. That is pretty awesome. The contest ends June 29, 2009. She will announce the winner on June 30, 2009. You have 11 ways to enter. Go check it out over at Cheeseslave's Blog. Also, once you enter, check out the rest of her site. She definitely has a lot of knowledge.
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A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That
I have been reading this wonderful blog for the past month or so. The name of it is My Charming Kids. This lady, MckMama blogs about everything in her life. I found it from looking on someone else's blog and seeing this picture in the sidebar of this baby and it said Praying for Stellan on it. Stellan is her son and I'll let you read about it on her site because I know that I can't do the story justice. Well, after reading about her family and what's going on, I became absolutely hooked on her blog. She is a believer in Christ which is so amazing and it just helps remind other believers and non believers about God and about some things that we forget some times. Well, she posted something I think yesterday Tuesday about "Not an Island". Here's the first paragraph of her post.
Her post goes on but in the end she is asking people to leave there prayer requests in the comments section of that post and she will pray over them and the people posting will pray over some if not all of them if they so choose. It is a vessel that God is using and it so touches my heart to see her pour out her heart and generosity to the world. It is a definite must read. She is such a beautiful person and really glorifies God in all that she does.
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As I was reading over the prayer requests on the blog above, I started thinking. There are so many people right now that are having trouble financially. I know for us it hasn't been easy since my husband lost his job almost 2 years ago. We felt God was calling us to farm. My husband has always enjoyed it and his parents lived on the land. So, that's what my family is trying to do for a living. But, getting back to my post. I thought maybe I'd talk about farming/gardening for a living/family. I know some people may not be interested in this but. Buying a couple of packs of seed to grow doesn't cost nothing compared to how much we spend on groceries and fast food. You can pretty much get just about any pack of seeds at Lowe's or some garden store for under $2 each. All you have to do is break up the ground where you are planning to plant your seeds. Also, if you don't have a lot of yard space, don't worry. It doesn't take much to really plant a few seeds of each type of thing you want to grow. Also, if you don't have any yard that is able to put seeds in, then consider container gardening. You can find just about anything to put some soil in and plant your seeds. Any rubbermaid tub that you would normally use for organizing will do. Just make sure you have something deep enough for what you are planting.
Basically, what I'm getting at is. Plant a garden. Plant a little extra to either stock up for the winter in your freezer or canning. Or go to the area farmer's market to sell your extra veggies. People really appreciate it whether it comes from a farm or someone's backyard. There are many urban farmers at farmer's markets. Here's one that comes to our market that we sell at. Small City Farm. Here's a link to their About the Farm page. So, that can be another means of helping your family financially and nutritionally as well.
My husband and I feel so grateful that we get to do this. I still work an 8 to 5 job Monday through Friday. We are working to get me home on the farm and raising our 6 1/2 month old precious little boy. Hopefully and prayerfully I will be home before the summer ends. We'll see. I know it's in God's timing, not mine. We feel that God has called us to farm. To till the earth.
Herrick Kimball writes in one of his blog posts "Gardening and caring for creation was man’s original calling." He goes on to explain what agrarianism is and what christian agrarianism is. Herrick has written many posts about many things that we hold dear to our hearts. Please visit his blog and rummage through his past posts. He no longer posts except once a month which you will find a link to it on the home page. He is a very good writer and has many essays about "Living the Good Life". Here's the link to his homepage.
Getting back to tilling the earth. We grow closer to God when we farm. Just like the last couple of weeks on our farm. We've been worried sick about providing for our CSA members. The rain has hendered us planting as much and as often as we would have liked. We have our first pick up this Saturday and some things were still smaller than we'd liked. Well, we have had major thunderstorms come through our area this last week. God is so good. Even though we haven't been able to plant anything hardly these past few days, God has made all of our crops that are in the ground grow so so much. Basically, when we have lightening, it takes the nitrogen out of the air and helps it to be more accessible to the plants. Laughing Owl Farm explains it way better than me here. If you scroll down, he talks about it under the heading 'Hail Storm'.
We worry for no reason. God has everything under control. We sometimes just can't let go sometimes and have faith that He will provide. It is so easy for us to get so worked up over little things. We worry when God wants us to 'put all our cares on Him'. I know I have that problem alot. It's like I can't let go of the reigns. Well, I'll write more later. I hope you visit some of these wonderful links that I've inserted into this post. These are some wonderful links and people to get to know.
"I enjoy Simon and Garfunkle's music, but they certainly weren't playing my song
when they sang "I am a rock, I am an i-i-iiiii-sland." A rock feels no pain and
an island never cries? That is, like, totally definitely not me. And I am glad
I'm not an island in the crazy walk of life. I definitely feel pain. I cry for
sure. And I am not alone."
Her post goes on but in the end she is asking people to leave there prayer requests in the comments section of that post and she will pray over them and the people posting will pray over some if not all of them if they so choose. It is a vessel that God is using and it so touches my heart to see her pour out her heart and generosity to the world. It is a definite must read. She is such a beautiful person and really glorifies God in all that she does.
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As I was reading over the prayer requests on the blog above, I started thinking. There are so many people right now that are having trouble financially. I know for us it hasn't been easy since my husband lost his job almost 2 years ago. We felt God was calling us to farm. My husband has always enjoyed it and his parents lived on the land. So, that's what my family is trying to do for a living. But, getting back to my post. I thought maybe I'd talk about farming/gardening for a living/family. I know some people may not be interested in this but. Buying a couple of packs of seed to grow doesn't cost nothing compared to how much we spend on groceries and fast food. You can pretty much get just about any pack of seeds at Lowe's or some garden store for under $2 each. All you have to do is break up the ground where you are planning to plant your seeds. Also, if you don't have a lot of yard space, don't worry. It doesn't take much to really plant a few seeds of each type of thing you want to grow. Also, if you don't have any yard that is able to put seeds in, then consider container gardening. You can find just about anything to put some soil in and plant your seeds. Any rubbermaid tub that you would normally use for organizing will do. Just make sure you have something deep enough for what you are planting.
Basically, what I'm getting at is. Plant a garden. Plant a little extra to either stock up for the winter in your freezer or canning. Or go to the area farmer's market to sell your extra veggies. People really appreciate it whether it comes from a farm or someone's backyard. There are many urban farmers at farmer's markets. Here's one that comes to our market that we sell at. Small City Farm. Here's a link to their About the Farm page. So, that can be another means of helping your family financially and nutritionally as well.
My husband and I feel so grateful that we get to do this. I still work an 8 to 5 job Monday through Friday. We are working to get me home on the farm and raising our 6 1/2 month old precious little boy. Hopefully and prayerfully I will be home before the summer ends. We'll see. I know it's in God's timing, not mine. We feel that God has called us to farm. To till the earth.
Herrick Kimball writes in one of his blog posts "Gardening and caring for creation was man’s original calling." He goes on to explain what agrarianism is and what christian agrarianism is. Herrick has written many posts about many things that we hold dear to our hearts. Please visit his blog and rummage through his past posts. He no longer posts except once a month which you will find a link to it on the home page. He is a very good writer and has many essays about "Living the Good Life". Here's the link to his homepage.
Getting back to tilling the earth. We grow closer to God when we farm. Just like the last couple of weeks on our farm. We've been worried sick about providing for our CSA members. The rain has hendered us planting as much and as often as we would have liked. We have our first pick up this Saturday and some things were still smaller than we'd liked. Well, we have had major thunderstorms come through our area this last week. God is so good. Even though we haven't been able to plant anything hardly these past few days, God has made all of our crops that are in the ground grow so so much. Basically, when we have lightening, it takes the nitrogen out of the air and helps it to be more accessible to the plants. Laughing Owl Farm explains it way better than me here. If you scroll down, he talks about it under the heading 'Hail Storm'.
We worry for no reason. God has everything under control. We sometimes just can't let go sometimes and have faith that He will provide. It is so easy for us to get so worked up over little things. We worry when God wants us to 'put all our cares on Him'. I know I have that problem alot. It's like I can't let go of the reigns. Well, I'll write more later. I hope you visit some of these wonderful links that I've inserted into this post. These are some wonderful links and people to get to know.
Usefulness of Whey
I have never thought about whey except that small time in my life when I went to the gym and was in semi health mode. But what I'm talking about is nothing like that. I had no idea how to make it or where to get it from before we started making the raw milk formula for Riley. It calls for 1/4 cup in each batch we make. So, I realized after seeing the post from Cheeseslave today about How to Make Whey, I figured I'd post a few of the many things you can use whey in.
- If you soak your grains, you can put whey in the water that you are soaking your grains in. Here's a link from The Nourishing Gourmet about soaking grains.
- Of course, in the raw cow's milk formula! I've linked to the Cheeseslave post about how to make raw milk formula. It's pretty easy.
- If you ever lacto-ferment any vegetables, you use the whey in those recipes. I know I love love love sauerkraut!!! Other veggies that I can think of are beets, radishes, carrots, etc. Pickles are the BEST!!!
- Lacto-fermented beverages. Think vinegar like. Kombucha is really good although you have to get used to it. I'm not sure anyone likes it at first. Food Renegade has a really good post about the benefits and such of Kombucha and how to brew it.
That's about all I can think of right now.
If you want to learn more about eating traditional foods, you definitely need to read Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
Hope this post was a little informative!
Later.
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