Apple Jack Creek

Living on a small holding in rural Alberta, raising kids and animals, growing stuff, creating things with fibre, and living with PTSD. See more at www.applejackcreek.com.

28 November 2009

A wonderful thing happened to me today!

For my birthday, my awesome husband gave me a $20 gift certificate for the local yarn store. Today I finally had a chance to go in there and...

23 November 2009

Spaghetti Squash Soup

Spaghetti squash is an odd sort of vegetable. This sturdy, almost-impossible-to-cut-open yellow squash cooks up to reveal stringy insides th...

15 November 2009

Pea Soup for Supper

Whole green peas (dehydrated from the garden), about a cup Yellow split peas, about 3/4 of a cup Dehydrated red peppers, a small handfu...

11 November 2009

Climate Change – the small version

Every year, we go through rounds of climate change. Summer is warm, and we need the windows open to get the air circulating through the ho...

08 November 2009

One way to make a difference in the world

This is a guest post written by my sister, who lives in Lithuania and works with the local church there. Shuffling her way through the fro...

03 November 2009

City Chickens in Windsor, Ontario

This just in from CBC News! A new city committee will study the possibility that people in Windsor, Ont., should be allowed to raise c...

02 November 2009

What I did today: an Inuit-inspired needle case

Today, I embarked on a bit of an experiment. The experiment was designed to solve a recurring problem, namely the fact that I can never seem...

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