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Seasonal Eating Thoughts

June 18, 2013 By Haley 4 Comments

Find me over at Mama and Baby Love today talking about our journey toward seasonal eating... Ever wonder how to take your enjoyment of food to a new level? The answer might be a major shift in your food lifestyle to embrace seasonal eating.   Until college, a tomato was a tomato to me. It certainly wasn’t a food I would ever want to bite into all by itself. You pick them up any ol’ time of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Green Living, Seasons Tagged With: seasonal eating, tomatoes

Holy Time: Observing Advent Instead of Fighting Santa

November 17, 2012 By Haley 26 Comments

Every year I hear folks bemoaning the secularization of Christmas and how commercialism has overtaken what used to be a Christian holiday. I read news stories about which retail stores are promoting “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” and which groups and organizations are boycotting those stores for choosing to greet their customers in one way or another.  People label it the “war on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advent, Catholicism, Christian Year, Christmas, Faith & Liturgical Living, Seasons Tagged With: advent, christian year, Christmas, holy time, little holydays, liturgical year, santa, scrooge

Michaelmas Traditions: Prayers, Food, and Flowers

September 19, 2012 By Haley 23 Comments

Michaelmas is quickly approaching: September 29th (next Saturday)! It will come as no surprise to you that I love St. Michael's Day. It was the first feast we celebrated when we started observing the Christian Year in 2009, the Fall before our conversion to the Catholic faith. What is Michaelmas? Michaelmas (pronounced Mickel-mas) is a feast day celebrating the Archangels. It follows the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Feasting, Food, Michaelmas, Saints, Seasons Tagged With: blackberries, christian year, Feast of the Archangels, Michaelmas, michaelmas recipe, St. Michael, st. michael's bannock, whiskey-glazed carrots

I’ve Got Greens and the Terrible Threes Growing in My Garden

March 20, 2012 By Haley 12 Comments

Here's what's been going on outdoors in our neck of the woods: Lots of park dates and outside play for this little guy. Baby girl is content to just sleep in the baby wrap with Mama while Little Bear gets his wiggles out. Although the terrible threes subsided a little bit in the past couple of weeks (perhaps due to extra time with Daddy during our trip), they were back in full force … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Children, Farm Life, Feasting, Green Living, Husband, Motherhood, Saints, Seasons, St. Patrick Tagged With: garden, lettuce, spring, swiss chard, toddlers

The Bounty of the Earth

March 1, 2012 By Haley 4 Comments

My husband is a farmer without a farm. So, he has transformed our front yard into vegetable-growing-egg-laying-awesomeness. I don't remember the last time we had to get store-bought eggs. The ones our chickens Feven, Daughter, and Gas Can lay (chicken names compliments of 3-year-old Benjamin) are amazing. Right now we've growing more delicious lettuce than we could ever eat, peas, green … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Life, Feasting, Green Living, Husband, Seasons

My Attempt to Beat Summer

August 31, 2011 By Haley 2 Comments

So I'd just like to brag and say...I've been a super good sport this summer. I'm almost 9 months pregnant in August and I feel that I have kept griping about the heat to an absolute minimum...most of the time. But it's starting to get to me. Big time. I have mentally prepared myself for more miserable heat until next Monday but after that I'm throwing a pregnancy hissy fit if it hasn't started to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advent, Faith & Liturgical Living, Pregnancy, Seasons

Widgets and Summer Fun

June 21, 2011 By Haley 3 Comments

I added some widgets to my sidebar and now I feel super fancy. This little guy and I are having the BEST summer We try to fill our early mornings with outside fun before it gets too miserably hot: the park, the pool, playing with trucks on the back porch. Before naptime or just after we go to the Brogan Museum of Arts and Sciences to see giant animatronic bugs, cool sciency children's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Children, Seasons

St. Anthony’s Pasta

June 18, 2011 By Haley Leave a Comment

At long last, I finally posted a new recipe on Feast!  And hey, I noted how to make it Gluten-Free and it includes these delicious amazing tomatoes from Daniel's garden:         … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Life, Feasting, Saints, Seasons, St. Anthony of Padua

Eating by Season: Why I Like Having a CSA Share

October 25, 2010 By Haley 2 Comments

I've had a few people ask about the CSA we have a share in, so I thought I'd post about it with some background on eating seasonal foods. In the past couple of years I've gained great appreciation for the rhythms of the Christian Year and the way that by observing it, the story of the Gospel unfolds. One way to participate in the Christian Year is to feast and fast according to the traditions of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Community, Farm Life, Green Living, Seasons

The Feast of the Archangels: Michaelmas 2010

September 30, 2010 By Haley 3 Comments

We feasted on what turned out to be a mini-Thanksgiving late last night with four friends and my brother. It was lovely to feast and celebrate St. Michael and the Archangels and share lots of orange, autumnal, beta-carotene-packed edibles at the change of season. And speaking of the change of season, Michaelmas is a feast that comes after the fall Ember Days (last Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community, Fasting, Feasting, Michaelmas, Saints, Seasons Tagged With: Seasons

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Welcome! I’m Haley Stewart, a bookish mama of four and wife to a beekeeper. Writer, speaker, podcaster, and Catholic convert. Homeschooling, bacon-eating, and bright red lipstick-wearing Jane Austen aficionado. My first book, The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture is available now!

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