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Krystal on August 5th, 2010

We are still picking raspberries. My God. Still. I need a scale to weigh just how many kilos of raspberries we’ve picked. A bloody lot. Raspberries, berries in general do not travel well and by the time the bucket is full and the berries are rinsed they are pretty much mush. Which makes good fruit [...]

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Krystal on June 28th, 2010

SO many stories to tell. Summer is finally here, Solstice has passed the moon is full and the days are long and warm. We’ve had a great spring for mushrooms and the local morels are pouring into our tummies and the dehydrator. Grass is tall because of all the rain which is good news for [...]

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Krystal on June 7th, 2010

We are on the go a lot and as a result I am tempted quite often to opt for food that is quick and easy and convenient. The result is that we eat a lot of raw, whole food. Breakfast has been changed from granola to rolled oats soaked overnight. In the morning we add [...]

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Krystal on May 2nd, 2010

Well after a month of living in a van I have to say that the coolest thing about it is outdoor yoga. Being as that there isn’t much room inside I have been forced to take my daily yoga practice outdoors and while it was challenging and odd at first, mostly for the fact that [...]

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Krystal on September 12th, 2009

The water from our washing machine is going to be drained into a garbage can that sits beside it. There is room there because we don’t have a dryer. When I was hooking up the washing machine I discovered that what came out the back of it was a hose that I was supposed to [...]

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Krystal on September 2nd, 2009

Until today I used to be able to say that I had never mowed a lawn in my life. And that would be a completely true statement. I grew up on a farm where mowing the ‘lawn’ consisted of getting a horse or pony and a book and laying out on the grass for a [...]

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