Sustainable Living

Re-enactors Camp In Style With Help From Lehman’s!

It’s challenging to keep up a “period correct” portrayal. But for us, it’s easy too! The difficult part is the research to make SURE that what we use is accurate in every detail. The easy part for us is that Lehman’s has many items that are necessary to carry off the illusion of living “back then.”

Read More

Book Review: Seed To Seed

If you are a gardener, large or small, I would HIGHLY recommend that you have a copy of Seed to Seed on your bookshelf. There’s a lot of satisfaction in breaking yourself from having to buy seeds every year. And this is just the resource you need to get started.

Read More

Pure Water: How To Do It On Your Own

You can store water but it’s really not easy. Water is heavy and bulky and you need a lot more than you think for everything from washing dishes and clothing and flushing the toilet.

Read More

How Do YOU Make Apple Dumplings?

My favorite part of the recipe is the bottom corner of the back of the card, after the sauce ingredients–where Granny wrote “Good luck” in tiny letters.

Read More

“But Why Bother?”

So why bother? It’s a legitimate question. I bother because the money I earn is in direct proportion to the labor I expend. The product I provide is useful and ethical and I can be proud of it. I bother because I prefer blue jeans to business suits and Muck boots to high heels.

Read More

A Garlic Prelude

The tender portion of the garlic scape can be chopped and used like an onion scallion in recipes and it offers a delightful mild garlic flavor. They are excellent in soups, stir-fries, pesto…

Read More

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

Every time I talk to a customer about composting toilets, there’s a glimmer of fear lurking in the conversation. “What if it doesn’t work?” they ask.

Read More

Follow Us