Guide to the Recipes

Here’s a little road map to the categories (I think of them as recipe books) to better navigate your visit here:

Plastic Free Good Life is where you’ll find the story of our plastic fast. It tells the story of just what we did and how we did it.

On Symbolic Action is where I attempt to answer the question of why our small drops in the bucket matter.

Radical Homemaking is about voluntary simplicity, home based activism, and changing the world.

Spiritual Homemaking is my chronicle of growing into motherhood, keeping the rhythms of our home, the inner work of balancing self and family, Waldorf parenting, and my many foibles along the way.

Made by Hand features my series “This Old Bedsheet” on repurposing old goods into new, and is a record of my handwork.

Kitchen Activism is filled with the recipes, adventures, and bloopers you might expect when someone abruptly stops shopping at Trader Joe’s and begins making all her family’s tortillas, sour cream, cheeses, bread…etc. Lot’s of good stuff there.

Green Allies is about the garden we grow and the wild plants we harvest from our surrounding mountains and deserts. It has recipes for homemade body care, stories of wildcrafting, and using herbs and homeopathy to heal our family.

Seasons records the wheel turning us round and round the year, through festivals, the changing face of the land, and our growth along the way.

Mapping Home is perhaps my favorite category. It is the story of our love for our homeland, and for each other. It is those two simple things that fuel all other positive change in our world. If you do nothing else, get out, walk your land, know it, and praise it. All else follows.