This meal is the most adaptable of winter meals. Add salad, bread for a complete feast. If you’re out of a certain veggie, skip it. You can add any veggie to it to increase proportions. Suggestions are dried beans, a handful of pasta, or buglar, okra, squash or zucchini, diced turnips, or finely sliced cabbage.
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Canned Vegetable Beef Soup
Proof It Can Be Done: A Micro Farm in the Suburbs
November 17th, 2009
Many believe that a large acreage is needed to live off the fat of the land and be self sustaining. This family has proved us all wrong. While many Americans are looking onto the horizon of harder times and researching ways to be more frugal, this family is already doing it. They live [...]
Man’s Good Deed Saves Stranger’s Vacation
When Brian Tapp found a wallet and passport by the side of the road, he rushed to the airport to make sure a total stranger could get on his flight.
Brian Tapp, a 59-year-old florist from Sydney, Australia, had just been evicted from his shop. One morning last month, as he made a final trip to [...]
The Farm, a man and a mission to help others
By Debra Smith, Herald Writer
SNOHOMISH, WA — In a small town known for its antiques, quaint Victorian homes and historic downtown, the Farm is an anomaly.
It’s just outside Snohomish city limits, wedged between a business that rents backhoes and a veterinary clinic.
It’s not a farm in any conventional sense. No wheat or corn or potatoes are [...]
