Join Me in the Dark Days Challenge!

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One of the questions people always ask me when I tell them I try to eat local foods as much as possible is, “what about winter?” Although truthfully, I don’t get asked that question quite as much any more.

What’s Your Favorite Holiday Recipe? @shespeaksup & @macys want to know! #RecipeShare

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Holidays are a time when I love to pull out family recipes, like the banket that I make with my mom every year. If you have a favorite recipe you’d like to share, you can win $1000. Now that’s a lot of banket ingredients!

Can I Brag about My Farmer’s Market?

Even though I sing the praises of CSAs on this site, and tend to overlook the farmer’s market, I want to say that I love ‘em!

Eat Local, West Michigan!

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It recently occurred to me that many of you might not know that I’m in the process of launching another blog, www.eatlocalwestmichigan.com.

10 Things I’ve Learned through the Simply Me Project

With the 1 year anniversary of my blog drawing near, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’ve learned over the past several months. I’ve been kicking myself because I’m not going to finish within the year. But when I read the posts from the beginning of my blog, I realize that my point wasn’t [...]

Winners of the ebook: You Don’t Have to Wear Hemp Underwear

Is anyone else wondering if they really do make hemp underwear? I did do some googling, and most of the hemp underwear seems to be men’s boxers. Ladies briefs tend to be organic cotton. Regardless, the lucky winners this week are Cindy and Benita! This is Cindy’s second win, so I may have to implement [...]