 April went by like lightning - but then this whole year is whizzing by! I think this has been one of the most challenging months since beginning the vineyard! We have had temperatures in the high 80F's most days but then dropping below freezing for the last 3 weeks and each week has been on a ... March was an exciting month for us! The biggest happening was our house in Alabama sold! After 5 years on the market, it actually sold! We had put it on the market just as the housing crisis hit. We took a break from pruning, made a trip back to clean out the rest of our ...  Would you like to go to a conference about health and healthy living but you don't have the time or money? I have the answer! The Healthy Life Summit. The Healthy Life Summit is a FREE online virtual conference. Starting March 24 through March 30, 2013, there will be 35 of your favorite health experts, authors, doctors, bloggers, ...  I think I say it every month, but this month has flown by! While we have been busy pruning, we have also taken time to care for the wine from our last harvest and even the cows enjoyed tasting the leas from it. John and the boys spent 3 days in El Paso helping our second ...  Get FREE Enrollment to Beautiful Babies Online Nutrition Course ($199 Value) for under $16 - scroll to the bottom to find out how! Hurry this offer expired March 18th. People think that since I have 10 children, I had an easy time with pregnancies. Unfortunately, that is not the case at all! I never seemed to have ...  I confess that I am a little late with my favorite links in January, but this month has been busy! Besides home educating the children, we have moved from our slow, no-work mentality of the winter, to pre-pruning and hand pruning the vineyard. We have started earlier this year so we can pick our days ...  As you have probably guessed, I have been enjoying the holidays - I took last week off from blogging to spend time with my family! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! December is one of my favorite months of the year! Not only do we celebrate Christmas but we also have 2 sons born ...  Another month has come and gone, Christmas is right around the corner and so is a new year! This month has seen some serious building here at the vineyard - we had an ICF barn raising! While it is still not completed, it is close. We contracted the concrete floor and roof and we did the ...  The first of my weekly giveaways here at Cultured Palate, is a special one! I am part of a blog tour and the prize to 2 lucky readers will be a copy of Real Food Fermentation by Alex Lewin. Plus I have a recipe excerpt for Kimchi from the book just to wet your appetite! Whether you are new ...  Here we are once again at the end of another month! Time is definitely flying and Christmas will be here before we know it which means so will a new year! We have continued work on and made great progress on the filter house/pavilion and even started a barn (which I have not even posted about yet!). ... |
     
 
God has amazingly blessed me, Dina-Marie, with a wonderful husband and 10 beautiful children. Moving from our "secure" life in Alabama to the "exciting" life of starting a vineyard in west Texas has definitely been challenging. Besides frugality, farm life and simple living, I have learned the importance of diet, quality of food and traditional cooking. Through the GAPS diet, I am successfully reversing my rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and food allergies. I hope to encourage you to make the most of where you are and what you have as I share my life with you. 
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