Bringing Permaculture to Life in the Kitchen

Author Jenny Moriarty

Jenny is Jim's wife, an actual mom to a human, a cat mom, chicken wrangler, kitchen crusader and professional mess maker. She is CEO of animal husbandry in the Moriarty household, Chief Household Organizer and Head Mom to the most amazing little boy. She is a graduate in creative writing from the University of Hartford. Jenny looks forward to experimenting with new recipes and sharing her thoughts as a newbie in the world of Permaculture.

The Permaculture Lifestyle

It’s easy to look up ‘what is permaculture?’ in a simple Google search. It’s easy to read the description and that’s that. But what it means to you is the most important, what is Permaculture to YOU? The Permaculture design… Continue Reading →

Preparing for Chickens

Chickens should be here this week! Yesterday we spent a good amount of time at the barn picking the brains of Dan and Becky at Green Acres Farm, our chicken experts, and then getting supplies at Tractor and Supply Company… Continue Reading →

Ridiculously Easy Banana Pancakes

My go to breakfast is toast, with peanut butter, sliced bananas on top and a dash of cinnamon on top. If I’m feeling in extra need of some sweet comfort food I’ll add a drizzle of all natural honey too…. Continue Reading →

Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Pizza

Pizza is pretty versatile and easy. We bought some fresh goat cheese at the Winter Farmer’s market the other weekend and I just had to use it. We also bought a HUGE yellow onion so I wanted to use it… Continue Reading →

Black Bean Burrito Bowls

This recipe was inspired from a recipe exclusively in the Skinny Taste Cookbook by Gina Homolka. I changed several things around for the winter. Some things aren’t available fresh so frozen vegetables and canned work well. This by far is… Continue Reading →

Easy Peasy Red Curry

I’d like to delve more into Curry dishes and other Indian food. This is not the best curry recipe I’ve found but it is the easiest and quickest. So it’s worth a try if you haven’t made curry before and… Continue Reading →

Our Harry Potter Trip

I know this is totally not related to permaculture or cooking but many people have asked about our trip and since our blog is about educating I figured this could be a quick educational post about Harry Potter World. So… Continue Reading →

Chickens Coming Soon!

Our chicken have been ordered! I’m SO excited. They’ll be here the first week of March and we will keep them inside until late spring. As soon as it is 50 or warmer at night or earlier with a heat… Continue Reading →

Brussels Sprouts and Acorn Squash

More Brussels Sprouts…this time with squash! Half the time I create  or find new recipes and go out and buy the ingredients I need, the other half of the time I try and create recipes with the things we already… Continue Reading →

Kefir Tropical Smoothie

I’m that weirdo who makes smoothies in the dead of winter. I’ve been really trying to not buy fruit at the grocery store. It’s very hard to only eat and only buy fruits and vegetables in season. After growing up… Continue Reading →

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