Good golly, how in the world is November almost over?!  I still have things about the Bent Arrow Challenge I want to write about!  Ugh!  Oh well, since time has decided that it will continue on whether I’m behind or not, I guess I need to just roll with it. As you know, I’m super […]

We did it!!!  The Bent Arrow Challenge 2018 has come to an end and we did pretty well.  Eating local wasn’t as hard as we thought it would be, but a big contributor to it being easy was Market Wagon. Market Wagon’s mission is to “enable food producers to thrive in their local and regional markets.”  When […]

August is basically over and I have yet to update you all on what we’ve been making to eat local  (unless you’re following along on Instagram).  I will do three posts, ten days each, of what we ate with links to the recipes if they weren’t an original creation.  I do hope to upload some […]

Y’all know how important local food is to me.  I’m all about gardening, farmers’ markets and supporting local agriculture.  So last year when my friend Claire over at Bent Arrow Acres challenged herself to eat only local for the month of August, I was in awe!  And I planned to try to do it for […]

I’ve been posting recently about reducing our waste…and I promise that the third installment is coming soon!  One of the suggestions I gave was to “make your own.”  I talked mostly about making your own food items like bread and spice mixes, but DIY-ing your home cleaners is also an amazing way to reduce waste. […]

Welcome to part two in my reducing waste series!  If you haven’t read part one, you can visit it here.  In this series, I’m only sharing ways that we have personally been reducing our own waste over the last couple of years.  I have separated each action into “effort” categories….these are based on how much […]

A week or so ago I placed a poll on my Facebook page asking what you all would like to see next here on Full & Simple and you overwhelmingly choose “how to reduce your waste.” As I started thinking of all of the ways we’ve been working towards reducing our plastic use and waste, […]

As I’ve read more and more about homesteading and reducing waste, foraging has become a topic of interest, mostly because you’re getting something for nothing.  Great for the budget!  The plant that has caught my attention most this year is the dandelion.  And while I still don’t know if I love them all over my […]