Wordless Wednesday – Feathered Ferns

Self Directed Math Learning with Base Ten Blocks

Can you unschool math? Sure you can, especially with base ten blocks and other manipulatives! My kids love math and love working with numbers, splitting up sets, multiplying (although I’m not sure if they understand what that word is), etc… A great deal of this enjoyment comes from unstructured work with base ten blocks. Base ten blocks are a…

Wordless Wednesday – Garden Fresh Veggies

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Halo Bar Giveaway- Winner Announced!

Our Halo Bar giveaway is over and one lucky reader is going to get one box of 12 Halo Bars. That lucky reader is: Continue Reading ….

Moist Whole Wheat Carrot Honey Muffins

I have a ton of carrots from our CSA (not so many from our garden) and I’m always trying to do some thing new with them. So far this summer I’ve made meatloaf with carrots, carrot salads, roasted carrots and candied carrots but I haven’t baked them. To this end I came up with a…

Where Does Your Food Come From?

At dinner last night, as we were enjoying our grass-fed beef cheese steaks, the girls started discussing the importance of knowing exactly what your food is and where it comes from. As a family we try to source our food locally by doing things like joining CSAs and buying co-ops. Our beef last night was purchased through a buying club…

Delicious Organic Snacks – Halo Bar Review and Giveaway

  My family enjoys having something sweet now an then so I am always on the lookout for nutritious snacks that the whole family will love. Ones that are low in sugar and hopefully organic. So when I was asked to try the new, candy bar like,  Halo Bars from ProBar I was psyched. Halo…

Wordless Wednesday

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Wordless Wednesday

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The (mostly) Weed Free Garden

I want to be honest for a second, we are fairly lazy gardeners. It doesn’t help that the garden is down the hill and that we’re not fans of weeding. We usually leave the weeds until they are to the point of almost overtaking everything! Despite letting it get totally overrun with weeds we still…