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Eating Local

Why do people shop at farmer's markets, roadside stands, or local food coops? Some of the answers may surprise you or may be the same reason you shop in these venues. The most common answers included: the produce tastes fresher, I feel that the product is more nutritious,  I want to help local economy, or I want to help the environment. Whatever your answer, this is the time of year that is very exciting because the farmers markets and roadside stands are cropping
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Gear Up For Canning Season

March is a wonderful time of year for most of us. It is a time that usually starts me thinking about food preservation. I take some time, in between finding the paperwork for taxes and squeezing in transportation, to check out my area of food preservation items. A quick check of my storage area helps me to see some of the things that I need to do to make sure that when I start canning I don’t need to take a
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We Need To Purchase What?

After the holidays it was brought to my attention that the home microwave was acting funny. Not ha-ha funny -- but it was not working like it should. Now that does not surprise me, the microwave was a wedding gift. And my husband and I are fast approaching 25 years. So now the shopping begins, my husband is really into looking at the Internet, reading articles -- you know research. I on the other hand need to go and physically look
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