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A HeartySol travel journal from Munich → Hannover → Berlin Traveling Through Germany: Munich, Hannover, and Berlin as Farmers There’s nothing like stepping out of your daily rhythm, hopping across the ocean, and landing in a place where the buildings are older than your entire family tree. This month, we traded our rolling Minnesota fields […]

What Traveling to Germany Taught Us About Farming, Culture, and Seeing the World Differently

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Hannover

If you’re prepared, you’re not scared – in this case, of a rocky family vacation. Whether this blog has found you before your spring break trip, your winter skiing excursion, or your first time out of the country with the family, welcome and settle in for the 9 most important skills I’ve learned for handling […]

Planning & Executing a Successful Family Vacation (Without Losing Your Mind)

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Sailboat in the ocean

Over the years, I’ve learned there are a handful of very small, very quiet things that bring life back into a house that has carried a family through a long winter. Late winter is when I start noticing it. Not mess.Not dirt.Not clutter. (but with six of us here, this gets hard not to notice) […]

A House Gets Tired in February — Here’s How I Help Refresh Ours

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kitchen sink

Keeping it simple, light, and sweet with these 3-ingredient fruit leather bars! Farm to Lunchbox As summer makes it’s gradual departure, we get to work on canning and jamming to preserve what we have grown this season. With so much fresh produce still on our hands this time of year we also break out our […]

Homemade Fruit Leather | Flavorful Back to School Snack

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We’ve just returned home from ten slow and beautiful days nestled in the rolling hills of rural Tavarnelle, in the heart of Tuscany. It’s the kind of place where the mornings are quiet, the meals start late and the birds seem to echo every thought you didn’t even know you were thinking. Dolce Far Niente: […]

Tuscany in Stillness | Intentional Living, Warm Tables and the Art of Being Still

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Tuscany Countryside

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