Month: April 2022

I talked in a previous post about my original experience with food preservation. I’d now like to share with you the journey I have gone through in regards to food preservation, and the goals I have to continue and expand my food preservation capabilities in the future. And, of course, I’ll make future posts detailing how to do each of the food preservation methods listed so that you can try them for yourself.

I’m originally from New Mexico. If you should know one thing about New Mexicans, it’s that we take great pride in our chile products. In fact, the state question is “Red or Green?” referring to whether people prefer red or green chile on their food.

Spring is here!

Now that the weather is getting warmer, I’d like to share my kids’ favorite warm weather treat, and how I make it low waste. This treat reduces food waste in our home. It also helps me to feed my kids more whole, plant based foods while limiting single use plastic packaging. And the treat is: smoothie pops!

I’ve heard for years that more people should be supporting local farms, but it just never made much sense to me. People claim that we should do this because getting food locally reduces emissions from transportation, but the truth is that transportation of food only accounts for 4% of the total emissions from the food industry. So buying local to reduce the impact of my food by less than 4% was not a motivating factor.