Eco-Friendly Vegan Camping! Part III – Yosemite & “How To Be Vegan”

August 14th, 2014 - posted under: The Farm » Family

A good road trip always calls for a good book! Typically the drive from Sequoia National Park to Yosemite National Park should take somewhere around four hours – or closer to five if you’re operating under traveling-with-4-year-old conditions. But when we made the trip Yosemite was on fire. Multiple fires in fact. And so we [...]

Eco-Friendly Vegan Camping! Part II – A Few Of My Favorite Natural Products

August 13th, 2014 - posted under: The Farm » Family

Our creekside campsite at Sequoia National Park, early morning. Our first official morning of camping, Waits woke up early with the birds. I was still exhausted, but Jeremy was kind enough to get up with the kiddo and begin the breakfasting. Later, he told me that those early mornings, working in the cold and quiet, [...]

Camping! Eco-Friendly Vegan Camping! With Kids! And Gluten-Free Too! Oh, So Many Ways To Frame This. Part I – Food

August 12th, 2014 - posted under: The Farm » Family

Hot dog roasting MASTER. We did it! We camped, and it was Waits’s first time, and my first time in maybe a decade (seriously), and we didn’t die and we didn’t kill each other and we ate really amazing food and IT WAS SO FUN. We’re already planning our next trip. Working on the car [...]

Big Changes!

April 24th, 2014 - posted under: The Farm » Family

Lookit those long flowing locks. Such beautiful tresses! But if you’ve been following this blog for any amount of time, you’ve probably noticed that hairstyles don’t last long around these parts . . . All gone! Waits was so brave (even though he was totally scared) and our friend Gabe at The Color Room was [...]

Vegan Family Vacation: Vegan At Disneyland

March 19th, 2014 - posted under: The Farm » Family

Damian and I both grew up in southern California, which means that our entire pasts are peppered with memories of Disneyland. The overwhelming elation of the very first visit. Then over the years, birthday parties and family adventures. High school senior ditch day! The Magical Kingdom has always been this amazing, ubiquitous part of the [...]