Hi! You can eat dandelions. Isn't that cazy? Not only can you eat the leaves, which I recently saw for sale at Kroger and my eyes bugged out of my head because... why would you pay for dandelion leaves, they're freaking everywhere, but also you can eat the flowers. And when you turn the flowers into a jelly? It is REALLY REALLY GOOD. Remember when I went on a foraging hike with Trish and Rebecca? Well, Trish's mom generously gave Ryan and I a huge jar of this unbelievable dan

Real talk: anyone else worry about how prepared you are for a zombie apocalypse? Anyone? You're lying if you say no. Not a day goes by that I lament my lack of survival skillz. I have seriously considered signing up for a bow-hunting class, but then I think that in the new world I would be better off if I learned how to paint myself to look like a tree stump and only turn off half my brain when I sleep like I hear dolphins can do. So I compromised and went tramping through th

Some days, while I'm taking a break from grading papers or lesson planning, I'll get on Pinterest in search of delicious looking food. I love saving yummy looking recipes, but the absolute best is when following a few links leads me to a new (to me) food blog that I can stalk. When this happens, I tend to get just a touch too obsessed for a few weeks, to the point where I read about two years worth of posts and could literally take a quiz on this person I've never met and pa