Chronicling the pursuit of healthful, sustainable living among the gardens and livestock of In the Night Farm, Idaho. Here's to small-time organic farming, vegetarian cooking, baking, and preserving, and the simple pleasures of less urban living.
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I realized something the other day: For the first time in my life, I feel completely satisfied with my physique.
At 31, I am fitter than I have ever been. Leaner. Stronger. With a BMI of roughly 18, I'm in the "low-normal" or "athlete" range for...
Raise your hand if you've ever eaten Hamburger Helper. (Yes, I confess that my hand is up. But I haven't touched the stuff in at least 4 years, and I rarely did so before that.)
Because my family lived on a small farm and raised a beef cow every...
It's vacation time! Ironman and I are spending six days in Idaho's Owyhee canyonlands -- a vast, scenic expanse of rough canyons, steep hills, sagebrush, antelope, and sky.
I'm spending much of my time horseback, participating in the Owyhee...
Welcome to Tuesday Tallies, my weekly answer to the FAQs: What do you eat? and Good gravy, woman, how much do you work out?
(For those who prefer not to slog through the details, the brief answers are, respectively, a lot and not as much as you'd...
Ironman has been showing me up on the primal front, lately -- and he doesn't even claim to be primal! (He has been experimenting with grain elimination, however, with positive results including decreased "hunger crashes.")
Yes, while I've been sitting...
