If you’re interested in vegetable gardening and growing your own food, all of the advice out there is going to tell you to start your seedlings indoors. I’m here to tell you that you don’t need to do that. In…

One year ago I moved from Boston out to a rural property in Appalachia. Do I regret my decision? What have I learned? Would I recommend it to a likeminded person? I had lived in cities my whole life. When…

Learning to let go is one of the hardest things we can master in this life. In my own personal journey of letting go, I have encountered many people who have never learned how to do it. But I have…

I know a lot of people are always looking for a good back to help them when they are trying to make a change. Wanting to “read more” is also a pretty common New Year’s resolution. So I thought I’d…

Clothes have been the hardest thing for me to tackle in my minimalism journey. I remember when I first started to embrace this path, I looked at my overstuffed closet and thought “But what do you do when they ALL…

This time of year, we find ourselves thinking of our goals and aspirations for the following year. I love setting goals. Goals keep me motivated and give me those little feelings of accomplishment as I move through the year. But…

Getting to “zero waste” may prove to be impossible, but every swap you make gets you closer to the goal. Consider that just by switching to a reusable water bottle saves an average of 156 plastic bottles per year. If…

Although I had been doing some form of “urban homesteading” in Boston, this year I decided to get serious and moved to rural Virginia. I moved in April 15th and it was off to the races! Road blocks I ran…

When I was a kid, art was my life. I remember when I was in first grade, a child dared me to draw a picture of a horse that was on a pack of crayons. She said there was no…