American’s children could be breathing easier if the country gets on a path toward a cleaner energy future.  As we’ve reported previously on the Flour Sack Mama blog, any efforts to cut carbon pollution at power plants could also benefit those in society…

Family farms that once filled America’s countryside are both shrinking and disappearing.  These were the stuff of a diverse, local and regional food system that once provided the security of knowing you could stock your pantry from what was grown just…

Does your Christian faith involve the annual time of preparing for Christmas with Advent?  Looking for another tool to help you slow down and focus on this special time?  Blogger Candace Crabtree has created a new devotional e-book for you, titled Jesus,…

The founder of the Knoxville Equal Suffrage Association, Lizzie Crozier French announced, “Thanks be to God that in giving women the crown of motherhood he made her the giver not the taker of life. Woman has no greater claim to the rights of the ballot…

Is this energy issue really a health issue after all?

Abundant tomatoes for juicy eating and preserving, convenient lettuces & herbs just outside the kitchen door, our own organic strawberry patch — all enticing reasons to grow our own little organic family garden. It’s time for 0ur Saturdays in the Garden…

“Sure, I want a little bit of those ingredients linked to lung irritation, cancer and birth defects in my cleaning products,” said no consumer ever. “Sure, it might cause behavioral issues in my child and seemed to cause DNA damage in mice, but I want my…

God-given blessing, life-changing experience, source of stress.  It’s fair to say that most people have described parenting in this range of ways at one time or another.  No need to feel guilty about it.  No, parenting is not always the bliss-filled state…

Before you even reach the kitchen you know something good is on the stove, because you smell the aroma of homemade soup.  Especially in fall and winter, we savor the comforts as well as the nourishment served up in a bowl or a cup. What makes soup a…

Ever have one of these awkward green moments?

Picture a time capsule — not dark and unearthed from the ground — but transparent, with clues only detectable in a laboratory.  That may be what ordinary Americans have been creating with their air quality sampling around oil and gas extraction sites…

Take an Ozarks girl who’s raising her family in Appalachia to the West Coast, and chances are she’ll be delighted to visit a place with so many palm trees! When her friend says, “big things happen at the Pacific Design Center,” she stops to get a picture…