Heart-healthy & Earth-friendly look the same when it comes to diet

A friend on mine recently asked me for some advice on eating a low sodium diet because she was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure. I realized as I typed up all my tips that a heart-healthy diet looks a whole lot like an Earth-friendly one. Just another reason to think about the foods we [...]

Quick & Easy Halloween Costumes for Beginners

I wasn’t up for spending $40 a piece on my kids’ Halloween costumes this year, so I decided to make my own. Let me preface this by saying that, although I make a LOT of things from scratch, my skills with needle and thread and pretty much entirely lacking. So I needed something that was [...]

A little more on root cellaring

A few weeks back, I was interviewed for an article in the Boulder Daily Camera called Preserving Your Roots about home root cellaring. I got quite a few questions from friends about one particular part of the article: storing carrots. Since I harvested a full 5-gallon bucket’s worth of carrots this week from our community [...]

Blog Action Day: Why what you eat makes an impact

Today is Blog Action Day and I’m proud to be participating with other bloggers around the world in raising awareness about the topic of climate change. With all the press the upcoming talks in Copenhagen have been getting, doing something tangible about climate change can seem overwhelming, or out of our hands as individuals. It’s [...]

My 15 minutes of fame…

If you read the Boulder Daily Camera, you might have seen a familiar face on today’s front cover. Actually, three familiar faces: myself, Gabriel & Lily. I was interviewed last week about my efforts to cellar onions, garlic, squash, and potatoes over the winter using a system of shelving and lidded bins. Little did I [...]

My anti-depressants of choice? Endorphins & Serotonin.

This past January, a psychiatrist wrote me an unexpected prescription that finally succeeded in pulling me out of two and a half years of depression. It was not for an SSRI or any other anti-depressant that comes in pill form. It was a prescription for exercise. Although I had to visit with the staff psychiatrist [...]

How I broke my “To Do” list habit

My name is Julie Artz, and I’m a recovering list addict. Having discovered FranklinCovey’s Day Planner–and its system of Priority A, B, and C to do lists–at a rather young age, I became convinced that I could keep myself organized, spend time on the most important things, and achieve all of my long-term goals, if [...]

Making chicken and vegetable stock

Last week, LaLaGirl cracked me up with her story–including pictures–of a moldy carton of Swanson’s Chicken Broth, commenting that she really ought to make her own. I promised I would share my method, so here it is.
I say method instead of recipe, because, like so many of the things I cook up, you can [...]

Elusive Happiness

When big changes occur in life, I think it’s natural to take stock, dream of the possibilities, and come up with a plan. At least, it’s normal for me. This spring, the company my husband and I work for announced that it was being bought out. We knew that, even in the best-case scenario, my [...]

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