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Spring Has Sprung, and We’re Giving Away a Kitchenaid (and more)! #BornOnTheFarm

April 26, 2016 By Food Retro

It’s funny. Although it has been a mild winter compared to last year, this year seemed rougher. February in particular was a dark and dank month. The weather was unpleasant, people were isolated, and  it just. Dragged. On. But hey, the sun is coming back, the grass is green, and the weather was even tolerably nice…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, Life With Food Allergies, The Answer is 42, The Urban Homestead

25 Ways To NOT Display Christmas Cards

December 17, 2015 By Food Retro

My morning muse for this morning is Jennifer of YouPinspireMe, who was recently crowing about how you know it’s Christmas time when your post about 25 Ways to Display Christmas Cards suddenly gets a ridiculous amount of organic search hits (no I won’t tell you how many, but I had to go cry over a…

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Filed Under: Crafty Things, Frugal & Eco Things, SLIDER, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: Cards, Christmas, crafting, DDIY, Health & Home, humor

Help the Old Gifts Keep Giving

December 1, 2015 By Food Retro

I only bought a couple small gifts for my son this year, but he’s the only little one on both sides of the family. In spite of restrictions my husband and I placed on gift numbers, some years we ended up driving home for an hour with a carload of stuff jammed between our legs and…

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Filed Under: Frugal & Eco Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: Health & Home, Reusing/Recycling/Repurposing

Give Your Bakers Happy Holidays with Lee Valley Tools

November 20, 2015 By Food Retro

I was a happy baker slacker over the summer with the excuse that it was mostly too hot too heat up the house, but winter, it’s a-comin’. When the house feels chilly, baking is one of my favourite past-times, cause it gives me an excuse to linger in a nice warm kitchen with a cup of…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: Health & Home, Kitchen Chemistry, sponsored, t

Decking the Halls (Literally) with Shop.ca

November 10, 2015 By Food Retro

Decking the Halls (Literally) with Shop.ca | Shopdotca 800 sq ft collection | FoodRetro.com

It’s “Tis-the-Season” time, and that means two things: gift buying, and entertaining, both of which usually mean shopping, something that can be a bit of an exercise in stress if you’re a socially-awkward person like myself. I can easily craft a menu to feed fifty, but being as I’m a female married to a tech-geek person even…

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Filed Under: Beauty(ful) Things, The Urban Homestead

How to Stay Healthy This Winter (And RSVP for #WinterWithBoiron Party!)

November 6, 2015 By Food Retro

How to Stay Healthy This Winter (And RSVP for #WinterWithBoiron Party!) | FoodRetro.com

With winter fast approaching, the viruses that cause colds and flu aren’t far behind. In fact, the first spike in the cold virus usually happens shortly after back to school, with other spikes in mid-winter and early spring. The average adult gets 2 colds per year, but kids under 6 years old average between 6…

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Filed Under: Home Remedies & Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: sponsored

7 Things You DON’T want on Your New Homestead (Guest post by @TheInspiredHome)

October 14, 2015 By Food Retro

7 Things You DON’T want on Your New Homestead (Guest post by @TheInspiredHome)

I am conferencing. So enjoy this piece from my buddy Holly 🙂 –Anne I recently moved from a rural suburban centre of 10,000 people, out into the country near a town of 1,000. We’ve had this dream of having our own little piece of property for awhile. (Maybe all outdoor people have it?).  We wanted…

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Filed Under: Frugal & Eco Things, Greenish Thumb Things, The Urban Homestead

Kandoo Potty Training Giveaway

September 25, 2015 By Food Retro

I’m teaming up with Kandoo to share a fun way to celebrate the potty training process, plus a chance to win one of 50 Potty Training Prize Packs. Scroll to the bottom of this post to enter to win one of 50 Potty Prize Kits from Kandoo!

Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, Home Remedies & Things, The Answer is 42, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: giveaway, parenting

Food Allergy Friendly and Litterless Lunches with Funkins (+ Giveaway!)

September 14, 2015 By Food Retro

Kidlet is back in school now, week 2. I feel like I’m just starting to catch my breath again! Last few weeks have been a whirl of renovation dust and back to school chaos, and my son’s new medic alert bracelet and his Funkins arrived just in time.

Filed Under: Frugal & Eco Things, The Urban Homestead

3 Tips with Foraging With Kids

September 7, 2015 By Olga

I’ve been busy canning, preserving, cooking and basically dealing with fruit in rather large quantities. Many of said fruit came from our own backyard and many were eaten raw before I could even think what to do with them, but most of that ended up in jams, cakes, juices and I don’t even know what…

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Filed Under: Frugal & Eco Things, Greenish Thumb Things, Herb Lore Things, The Urban Homestead

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