Easy, Homemade Baguettes

One thing we can’t seem to get enough of is good bread. Slathered with butter or jam and toasted, serving as the foundation for our favorite sandwiches, or served alongside dinner to soak up sauces and gravies, we are most definitely bread people. While I…

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How and When to Harvest Milkweed Seeds

Milkweed is the sole food source for monarch butterfly caterpillars. Monarchs have greatly decreased in population over the years, primarily because of habitat loss. As fields and meadows have given way to parking lots and shopping centers, the places where milkweed grew naturally have started…

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Collecting: Milk Glass

I have Martha Stewart to blame for my interest in collecting milk glass. Well, Martha, and the fact that milk glass is plentiful and easy to collect, and you don’t have to put a lot of money into building a collection. Of course, I’m not…

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