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Margaret Boyles lives in a wood-heated house in central New Hampshire. She grows vegetables, keeps chickens, swims in a backyard pond in summer, snowshoes in the surrounding woods in winter, and commutes by bike whenever possible.
Get Outside! It’s Good for Body and Mind
May 11, 2012
Spring Cleaning on Your Schedule?
April 30, 2012
When it comes to housecleaning, I count myself among the minimum-but-good-enough class of rural dwellers.
read moreDo You Sit Too Much? Get Up and Move!
April 19, 2012
Do you sit for long stretches of the day and/or evening for work, crafting, entertainment, or online socializing?
read moreStinging Nettles: Multipurpose Superplant
April 16, 2012
You’ll know if you accidentally run into a patch of stinging nettles.
read moreIt’s Dandelion Season!
April 8, 2012
My mother dosed her family with generous amounts of dandelion greens as soon as she discovered their bright leaves poking up through the thatch of the back lawn.
read moreEating Weeds: Why Not?
April 6, 2012
In late March, three weeks after knee-replacement surgery (which explains my lengthy absence from this space), northern New England experienced a record-breaking heat wave.
read moreMake Your Own Styling Gel
March 8, 2012
If you use thickening and styling products for your hair, but prefer all-natural ingredients and low cost, why not make your own?
read moreAloe Vera: A Self-Regenerating First-Aid Kit
February 24, 2012
Among the easiest-to-grow houseplants, Aloe vera will decorate a kitchen shelf with quiet grace, while doing double duty as a self-regenerating first-aid kit.
read moreReusing the News
February 17, 2012
We subscribe to our local daily newspaper and a couple of Sunday papers, devouring all the sections including the funnies, the TV schedules, the want ads, and the police log.
read moreTea for Health -- and More
February 10, 2012
After water, tea (Camellia sinesis) is the world’s most popular beverage.
read moreVinegar: The most versatile product in your home?
February 3, 2012
I’ve listed vinegar as one of my baker’s dozen of household essentials; I’ve extolled its virtues as a hair rinse (after a borax “shampoo”) and as a medium for extracting the culinary and healing essences of herbs.
read moreMaking Herbal Vinegars
January 30, 2012
You’ve seen herbal vinegars in upscale food boutiques and catalogues, usually stoppered or corked glass jars with sprigs of herbs floating in translucent liquid. Gorgeous. And pricey.
read moreHerbs for Health? Think Soup!
January 25, 2012
For millennia, our ancestors experimented with the leaves, roots, seeds, fungi, lichens, barks and other natural substances around them for healing.
read moreHousehold Uses for Stale White Bread
January 18, 2012
I’ve baked my own whole-grain bread for more than 40 years (the kind food writers call “rustic”). I don’t think I’ve ever bought a loaf of bread.
read moreMid-Winter Stress Relief
January 9, 2012
Light deprivation, snow and ice storms, dangerous driving conditions, power outages, frozen pipes, the frenzy of winter holidays, overindulgence, weight gain: winter delivers a load of extra stress to those of us in the colder, darker regions.
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