Dreaming of my Eden 2011

It’s not a bad thing to have goals, it is not a bad thing to dream.

Dreaming of my Eden (taken from an original blog post)

I have been blessed to live outside of the city in a house that is 100% ours. We don’t have to make payments on which is a miracle in itself for many, many newlyweds.

There is so much I want to learn and do!

Growing our own food from salads to corn to watermelons to cabbage, even though Aaron tells me we would be ridiculously skinny, I still would like to grow more of our own food.

Preparing meals that will not only fill our stomaches, but fill us with the needed nutrients that our bodies crave.

Canning, drying, freezing our harvest

Making my own jams, jellies, relishes and other condiments

Buying pantry staples in bulk

Using hand powered appliances

Homemade laundry soap

Living modestly

Planting and using culinary herbs like Basil to make fresh pesto and Tarragon to put in vinegar for salad dressing.

Planting and using medicinal herbs from harvesting wild plantains for postpartum relief to making white horehound lozenges and cough syrup to echinacea tinctures.

Digging a root cellar and stocking it with squash, potatoes, garlic and onions!

Building a cold frame and a green house

Having a home library versus a video game collection.

Cloth diapers hanging on the clothesline

Home sewn baby products

Going to pick…anything blueberries, apples, blackberries, strawberries, cherries

Using my wood stove for more than just heating the house.

Learning about building things, dry walling, carpentry. Gee, I wonder who would teach me that.