Category: Natural living
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Living Life on Your Own Terms
More off-grid hacks for winter weather Truth or aspiration? In an upside-down world where the loudest voices often seek power and control, and everyday people are tightening their belts, living life on your own terms sounds great in theory and nearly impossible in practice. We are far more interconnected than we ever intended to be.…
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🌱 Living Sustainably: Choosing All-Natural, Homemade Products Over Commercial
Happy autumn, friends! I hope this beautiful season finds you enjoying the spoils of harvest and soaking in the colors and scents of nature’s grand finale. The trees are performing their yearly ritual of dazzling transformation—from green to glowing golds, rustic browns, and deep oranges—and I can never get enough. Autumn always sparks my creativity.…
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Q&A: Life as a Craft Show Vendor with Dandelion + Burdock
Recently, Dandelion+Burdock founder Suzanne Lynch sat down for a very official, not-at-all-serious interview with Marigold McQuestions (that’s me). Over a cup of coffee and a pile of half-finished labels, we talked about the highs, lows, and hair-snagging realities of life as a craft show vendor. Q1. What drew you to selling at craft shows and…
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Winter 2025 Just Never Stopped
Surviving an Extreme Winter as a Solo Lady Living Off-Grid (Part 2) I hadn’t planned for this to be a follow-up to my January post, but here we are. Thankfully, I made it to spring! I can’t tell you how relieved I am to see temperatures above freezing and life getting back to normal. I’m…
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Supporting Local Businesses: A Small Choice with a Big Impact
Hello from upstate New York, where we are currently being absolutely pummeled with snow. What better time to sit down and write this blog post—especially when I’m weary from both shoveling and worrying! If we want to build more resilient communities, we need to take action now. Not just worrying about the weather, but also…
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Splitting Firewood and Collecting Pinecones
Happy holidays, friends! How fast the time has flown and I am still working on my fall chore in the final days before winter solstice. I am currently only heating my cabin with wood so it has been a longer job than ever before. Before I get into the details of splitting wood, I want…
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When the Trucks Stop: Becoming A Resilient Citizen
Hello friends! If you read my blog, it’s probably because I either forced you to (thanks, fam) or you are as concerned about our planet as I am. I started this post before the election, but I feel like a lot has changed so I have rewritten it in response. It’s been a difficult and…
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Improve Your Garden Soil with Regenerative Techniques
Harvest lessons prompts fall soil amendments Happy Autumn! The weather in September has been absolutely gorgeous in upstate New York, it’s been sunny, warm and dry. Like the past two summers, New York experienced loads of rain and tropical temperatures from June through August. I didn’t have to water my garden once. The ground always…
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Chickens Go Camping
Converting a camper into a chicken coop The chicken camper coop project started back in April by moving my beat-up 1982 Scottie about 50 feet navigating by three large tree stumps into the corner back part of my fence. It was a nerve-wracking tight squeeze to get my car back out but I managed this…
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Forest bathing and Grounding, how spending time in the woods can improve health
Having two German Shepherds who require exercising, I spend a lot of time walking through the woods that I am fortunate to live in. For the past three years, we have been out there every day and there is always something different about the woods. It’s hard to explain, but the combination of the weather,…