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Posts in the “Old-Fashioned Perennials” Category

  • Alpine Columbine (Aquilegia alpina)
  • Leopard’s Bane (Doronicum orientale)
  • Golden Glow (Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia)
  • What Do Bleeding Heart Seeds Look Like?
  • Pulmonaria — Lungwort (Pulmonaria saccharata)
  • Still Loving My Hollyhocks
  • Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana)
  • Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium purpureum)
  • Bee Balm / Begamot / Monarda didyma (Labiateae)
  • Oriental Poppy (Papaver orientale)
  • Orange Day Lily (Hemerocallis fulva)
  • Common Foxglove (Digitalis)
  • Feverfew (Chrysanthemum parthenium)
  • What Flowers Are Blooming In My Garden?
  • Hens & Chickens (Sempervivum tectorum)
  • Looking for Blooms
  • Lamb’s Ear (Stachys lanata)
  • Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis)

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  • Cooking & Baking from Scratch (97)
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  • Enjoying Nature (49)
  • Frugality (53)
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  • Voluntary Simplicity (203)
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The Good Life: Helen & Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living

by Helen & Scott Nearing

The Encyclopedia of Country Living

by Carla Emery

The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It

by John Seymour

The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!

by Carleen Madigan

The Complete Tightwad Gazette

by Amy Dacyczyn

Just in Case: How to be Self-Sufficient when the Unexpected Happens

by Kathy Harrison

Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition

by Abigail R. Gehring

Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance

by John & Martha Storey

The Happy Minimalist

The Happy Minimalist: Financial Independence, Good Health, and a Better Planet for Us All

by Peter Lawrence

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  • Only Two Ways To Live Your Life
  • Solving the Natural Peanut Butter Oil Separation Problem
  • All-Over Basket Weave Knit Afghan
  • Keeping Photographs, Purging the Item
  • How Much Does It Cost to Feed YOUR Family?

Voluntary Simplicity

  • Why We Chose Voluntary Simplicity — Sometimes There Is No Tomorrow
  • What is the Difference Between
    Simple Living & Voluntary Simplicity?
  • What Voluntary Simplicity Is NOT
  • Thoughts About Voluntary Simplicity
  • Downshifting To A Simpler Life
  • No One Way To Do Simple Living Right
  • A Sense of Balance
  • Learning To Slow Down
  • Accepting Responsibility For Your Actions
  • The Myth of Quality Time
  • The Paralysis of Too Much Analysis
  • Our Journey to a Debt Free Life
  • Decluttering and Purging
  • How To Stop Procrastinating
  • Organizing, Decluttering & Purging
  • I Think It Would Be the Noise
  • Leaving Your Comfort Zone
  • How Can I Stay Motivated?
  • How You Choose To Spend Your Time
  • Discovering Your "Enough"
  • Less "Stuff" Doesn't Equal Happiness Either
  • How To Be Happy In An Unhappy World
  • A Simplicity Anyone Can Live With
  • Practicing the Golden Rule
  • A Closer Look
  • Making the Most of Those Lifestyle Challenges
  • Valuing the Ordinary
  • 9 Simple Things We Do To Protect Our Environment
  • Seeing the Sunshine and a Happier You
  • A Challenge That Can Change Your Life
  • Accomplishing What Needs To Be Done... Efficiently, Quickly, and With As Little Stress As Possible
  • An Intangible Something Has Been Lost

Living a Simple Lifestyle

  • My Wood-Burning Cook Stove
  • Cooking & Baking with a Wood Stove
  • Our Simpler Country Lifestyle
  • Achieving a Simpler Life — Step 1: Track Your Spending
  • Yes You CAN Learn To Do It Yourself
  • The Biggest Obstacle to a Simpler, Truly Fulfilling Life
  • 7 Grocery Shopping Strategies That Work For Me
  • A Truckload of Logs — Our Winter Firewood Supply
  • The Final Cut & Summer Memories
  • Not Compromising Our Scruples
  • The Reality of Dial-Up Over a Phone Line That Has Been Left to Deterioriate for 36 Years
  • An Exercise in Perseverance
  • A Downside to Our Rural Life
  • Yesterday Was Not a Good Mail Day
  • Elderly Vehicles, Emergency Funds, & a Panic-Free Crisis
  • Our Hand Dug Backyard Pond
  • We Should Have Wondered Where All Those Rocks Came From!
  • Our Garden Paths
  • This Is Our Stone Path
  • How We Make Compost
  • Nature's Free Mulch — How We Make Leaf Mold
  • There's a Bear in Our Bird Feeder

Sensible Frugality

  • Being Sensible About Frugality
  • Does Frugality Mean You Shouldn't Have Nice Things?
  • What True Frugality Is... and Is Not
  • Credit Cards Aren't The Enemy
  • Don't Confuse Playing at Frugality with Living Frugally
  • Getting Out Of Debt: Why You Buy
  • Energy Conservation & Convenience
  • Some Thoughts About Grocery Shopping & Sensible Frugality
  • Are Buyer's Clubs A Frugal Choice?
  • Homemade Laundry Detergent?
  • Trying to Keep Heating Costs Down This Winter
  • If It Still Works, Why Do I Need a New One?
  • Somewhat More Intimidating Than the Usual Do-It-Yourself Project
  • Why I Don't Play the Coupon Game
  • Removing An Enormous Tree Stump

My Simple Life

  • Life is Getting Back to Normal
  • It Was a Very Long Night
  • 14 Things Unique To Me
  • Fall, Grapevines & Weaving Baskets
  • A Little Too Close For Comfort
  • My Husband's Solution To My Creative Chaos
  • I'm So Glad Today Is Friday
  • When You Give the Gift of a Smile
  • The Mystery Of Duck Duck Goose
  • Our Uninvited Midnight Visitor
  • Too Many Crackers Too Late At Night
  • The Pig in Our Garden
  • Lost On The Schoolbus
  • My Brush With Politics
  • When I Woke Up This Morning...
  • And That's a Warning We Take Very Seriously!
  • Something Else My Father Taught Me
  • It's The Simple Things That Count
  • Appreciating the "Now" of My Life

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