Zero Waste CSA Week 3
I feel like I am playing “Iron Chef” every week with all of these new types of veggies, but it has been a fun challenge and I still have not wasted ANY of our CSA produce. I hope you are feeling a bit more inspired to …
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Zero Waste CSA Week 2
This summer we are challenging ourselves to get creative with our cooking and use as much of the vegetable as possible. See my first post here. I am hoping that this blog series serves as a bit of inspiration for you as your are cooking with fresh …
Everything You Need to Do in Fairbanks, Alaska
Disclosure– Some of my posts include affiliate links, but you probably won’t notice because it doesn’t affect the blog or my opinions on here. Once I got over the initial shock of the sky never actually getting dark while I visited, I fell in love …
Zero Waste CSA Week 1
Last summer was the first time that we tried a local CSA (community supported agriculture) program. We had a great experience with the regular deliveries of fresh, organic vegetables. We were able to meet the farmers and visit the farm that was raising our food. …
7 Things To Do During Your Layover in Seattle
This week I was flying to Alaska from Minneapolis and I had a fifteen hour layover in Seattle. It was impossible to find a flight that was straight to Fairbanks from MSP, and most of the flights had two or three short stops. I opted …
Airbnb Update –May 2018
We have now lived in our home for almost ten months. To catch up, here are a few links to past posts about our house story, our airbnb rooms, why you should rent out your rooms, etc. In these ten months, we have had eight long-term …
Weekend in San Francisco
Hello friends! I just wrote a blog post titled How to Plan a Girl’s Trip (& still be friends afterwards!).  I thought that I would go ahead and share the trip that inspired that post. I recently went to San Fransisco with three of my lovely girl …
How to Plan a Girls Trip (& still be friends afterwards!)
How many times have you sat around with your friends, talking about the dream girls trip? When you all finally agree on a location and dates… what next? You’re about to spend a lot of time with these people, there needs to be some conversations …
11 Ways to Help the Environment that Save Money
1. Make Non-Toxic Cleaning Products After you use the cleaning products, they slip down the drain and are treated with the waste water and then dumped into our waterways. In a May 2002 study of contaminants in stream water samples across the country, the U.S. …
Denver & Boulder on a Budget
I love the feel of Denver and Boulder. It seems like everyone was wearing Patagonia jackets and walking their dogs. I initially bought plane tickets there for a surprise trip for Collin’s birthday. I was being so careful about not giving the destination away, but of …