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Crunchy Chicken
www.thecrunchychicken.com
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Take one average middle-class 4 person family. Reduce energy consumption, CO2 emissions and impact on the environment. Add growing their own food, cancelling their housecleaners and landscaper and making instead of buying pre-packaged. Equals recipe for success? Or just a whole lot of arguments?
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Weekend Link Lovin

I thought Id start doing a weekend post with a wrap-up of useful things that sprung up during the week. Enjoy! 1. Just because you havent heard enough yammering about the Diva Cup, heres a review fro...

05 may 12

How connected are you?

Ive been reading a few books on cyber security lately (dont ask), specifically Cyber War by Richard Clark, and it has really got me thinking about how vulnerable the peoples of the United States are ...

04 may 12

2012 Independent Publisher Book Award winner

Im so excited! I got news today that Ive won a book award. I won a Silver in the Health/Medicine/Nutrition Category of the 2012 Independent Publishers Book Awards for my book, The Non-Toxic Avenger, ...

03 may 12

Top 5 benefits of climate change

Diane, of the blog, Big Green Purse, is hosting this months Green Moms Carnival on the impacts of climate change. I know all the other participants in the carnival are going to be covering the negati...

01 may 12

Do women genetically own the bitchslap face?

A male friend of mine asked me the other day my thoughts on something he had been mulling over. He had experienced many times over the years what he described as a physical facial reaction by women t...

01 may 12

The life of your DivaCup

Warning: Graphic Pictures Ahead Ive been using the DivaCup for almost 5 years now. For those of you not in the know, the DivaCup is a silicone reusable menstrual cup. You slap it in, cup side upside,...

27 apr 12

Where am I?

I cant believe its been almost 3 months since I last posted something. Well, actually I can. Yall may be wondering what the heck is going on (of the few people still checking in) and without going in...

25 apr 12

NTA Book Club: Part 1 - Laying It All Out

Welcome to the first book club post for my book, The Non-Toxic Avenger: What You Dont Know Can Hurt You! This is the first of seven posts and will cover Part 1 of the book, Laying It all Out. The for...

06 feb 12

How to make maple brown sugar cured bacon

Tuesday night I prepared the pork belly that we got as part of our pig share using a maple brown sugar cure as described in The Urban Farmer Handbook. It went as such: 1. Rinse and pat dry pork belly...

02 feb 12

Going in on a pig share

Monday night our pig farmer was kind enough to pick up our half of a pig share from the butcher and deliver it to our front door. I ended up sharing a whole hog with Annette Cottrell from Sustainable...

01 feb 12

Defending Your Chickens Against the HOA

The following is a guest post from Shannon Boling. Shannon was raised in the country and now lives in the city. An aspiring urban homesteader, she spends her time planning events for teachers across ...

31 jan 12

Products mentioned in The Non-Toxic Avenger

Ive made a new page, that is available from under the banner above by clicking the tab "Products from the NTA Book", where I list many of the products that I mention in my book, The Non-Tox...

29 jan 12

Hoop Houses and Urban Winter Garden Tour

I was just going to go outside yesterday and take some pictures of the many different vegetables we currently have growing in our hoop houses (as described on The Crunchy Chicken Facebook page), but ...

27 jan 12

Top 10 Urban Farming books

I wanted to create a list of essential Urban Farming books for those who are just starting out as well as for the more experienced urban farmer. I selected books that dont concentrate on just one top...

26 jan 12 1 person likes this

Non-Toxic Avenger: The Book Club!

Now that the blog book tour for my book, The Non-Toxic Avenger, is wrapping up this week, I wanted to announce that Ill be hosting a book club starting in February. It will be in the same format as m...

24 jan 12

Blog book tour - Week 4

This week wraps up the month long blog book tour for my new book, The Non-Toxic Avenger. Ill be visiting the following blog and, as the post goes up, Ill be updating this post with the direct link. I...

23 jan 12

Random bits of nothingness

Im out of town and dont have time to post much, so here are a few things for ya from how I spent my day last Saturday... Before my Dads funeral. Do not touch prickly pear fruit. No matter how much yo...

17 jan 12

Blog book tour - Week 3

This week Ill be visiting the following blogs. As the posts are up Ill be letting you know the direct links. Im hoping this will give you more information about my new book, The Non-Toxic Avenger, as...

15 jan 12

The smoke screen of hidden flame retardants

The following was originally posted on the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families blog: When my children were babies, their health and safety were high priorities for me as their mother. They still are. I...

13 jan 12

Top 10 Homestead Goals for 2012

Erica over at Northwest Edible Life is running a giveaway of The Urban Farm Handbook and, as part of the giveaway, shes asking what the entrants Big Urban Homesteading goal is for 2012. Well, since I...

10 jan 12

Blog book tour - Week 2

This week Ill be visiting the following blogs. As the posts are up Ill be letting you know the direct links. Im hoping this will give you more information about my new book, The Non-Toxic Avenger, as...

09 jan 12

Non-Toxic New Years Resolution

Many of us make New Years resolutions revolving around health - generally of the lose weight, exercise more and eat better kind. But few stop to think about other things that affect our health. Sure ...

05 jan 12

30 minute mozzarella

Last weekend, my husband and I hit up The Cellar Homebrew near our place for some cheese making supplies. Since we got a cast iron pizza pan for Christmas to replace our old non-stick Teflon pizza pa...

04 jan 12

Blog book tour - 2012!

Hey everybody! Tomorrow kicks off my blog book tour. Whats that, you ask? Well, its like a regular book tour, but rather than travel all over the country (with a high travel carbon footprint), Im vir...

02 jan 12

Happy New Year!

Just thought Id throw out there some of the stuff Ill be working on in 2012: 1. Blog book tour - The month of January, a bunch of blogs will be participating in my blog book tour for The Non-Toxic Av...

01 jan 12

The Urban Farm Handbook review

Do you live in the city or an otherwise urban area, yet yearn for life in the country? Well, quit dreaming and start living! The Urban Farm Handbook is a necessity to prove that you can be (mostly) s...

31 dec 11

Best of 2011

While Im off on vacation, I thought Id bring back the posts that caused the most "excitement" in the last year. And the top 5 posts are.... 1. Urban Homesteaders - Cease and Desist: I cant ...

30 dec 11

Going pioneer in 2012!

I know you are just now hearing about my new book, The Non-Toxic Avenger, and will be hearing a heck of a lot more over the next few months when my blog book tour begins, but I did want to share with...

20 dec 11

Freezing for the holidays?

For those of you participating in this years Freeze Yer Buns Challenge, you run the problem of having visitors over who might not, say, appreciate the lowered temperatures. When youre acclimated to 7...

19 dec 11

Big Dipper Waxworks candles winner!

The lucky winner of the following candles: 2 Beeswax Ornament candles (each has a burn time of over 40 hours) 1 Beehive candle in Holiday Spice (burn time of over 35 hours) from Big Dipper Waxworks i...

18 dec 11

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