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Barbara Lenier

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Homemade hummus 🌱

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Salsa: An EasyWay to Fight Food Waste — Bite Sized Living

This easy salsa recipe is a delicious way to use up produce before it goes bad. Fresh, fast, and waste free!

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Gardens thrive because pollinators show up.

Bees, butterflies & hummingbirds.

They’re not just visiting. They’re working. Every leaf, every bloom, every bite of food gardens’ give us start with them. (Especially aeroponic & aquaponic)

I try to plant with intention and never spray chemicals.

Three decades of gardening has taught me this: nature know what it’s doing. We need to listen, plant & live accordingly.

Learn more at pollinator.org

(https://pollinator.org/)

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Hummus at the farmers market is $20 for three 8oz containers. Making your own is much better for the budget. I make 24oz plus for about $4! And you can make any flavor combination you like. Full recipe is up on the blog now. 🌱 🥙 🥒 🥕 🍅 🫑 🌯 🥗

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Growing food at home doesn’t have to be complicated.

My Tower Garden has 3 kinds of cucumbers, 3 kinds of tomatoes, 5 lettuces, 8 herbs, 3 types of kale, 8 herbs, 2 squashes, 2 peppers, Swiss chard, arugula, all with no soil & very little space.

If you’ve been thinking about growing your own food, this is an easy to start. 🌱

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It's my 7 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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Breakfast ideas: Squaw bread, vegan mayo, sunflower seeds, tomatoes & sunflower sprouts 🍅🌻🌱

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There’s nothing like tomatoes 🍅 straight from the vine! These are perfect & I can’t wait to eat them!

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My favorite meal is soup, salad & bread 🍲🥗🥖

Vegan broccoli cheese soup 🥦 🧀 Greens & tomatoes 🥬🍅 🌱 from my Tower Garden. Olive bread from Trader Joe’s 🫒 🥖

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Plant-based diets and your carbon footprint — Bite Sized Living

One of the most significant environmental benefits of a plant-based diet is its potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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Corn Chowder

Every time I went to Mimi's Cafe, I’d order the corn chowder. It’s warm, sweet, savoy, basically the perfect comfort food. I've had their recipe for several years and love to make it at home but like everything else I've modified it to make it plant based.

Ingredients 1/4 cup vegan butter 1/2 cup onion chopped 1 cup celery, large dice 3 cups hot water 2 1/2 cups raw potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2 cubes 16 oz bag frozen corn (white or yellow) 1 Tbsp sugar 2 tea salt 1/2 tsp white pepper 5 Tbsp flour/gluten free flour 5 cups of plant milk (I use hemp milk) Fresh ground pepper

Directions: In a large pot or dutch over, melt vegan butter. Add onion, celery, simmer until softened but not browned. Add water potatoes, corn and seasonings. Cover and simmer 30 minutes or until tender. Whisk flour into 1 cup of plant based milk and stir into soup. Add remaining plant milk, adjust seasoning if needed. Simmer 15 minutes, until soup thickens. Add salt and pepper. To thin add a little more milk, to thicken simmer 5-10 more minutes. Serve with fresh ground pepper. Enjoy!

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Asking for help isn’t weak, it’s one of the bravest things you can do.  💫

Taking time for yourself isn’t selfish, it’s necessary.  

Take time to breathe deeply, feel the sun on your face, smell the flowers, put your feet in the sand, enjoy the meal. ☀️ 🌺

Your mental health depends on it. 💕

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Earth Day 2022 🌎 

 

Earlier this month we went to Joshua Tree. Where 2 very distinct desert ecosystems, the Mojave & the Colorado, collide.🌵🌸 🌼 

 

Joshua trees look like something straight out of a Dr. Suess book!  

 

Visiting Joshua Tree national park became much more popular after U2’s album Joshua Tree in 1987 (fun fact, that was my very first cd. Yes, I said cd). 💿 🎶  

 

Joshua Trees will be all but extinct by 2070 without swift climate action. That’s very sad considering they’ve survived 2.5 million years in an extremely inhospitable environment. 🌵

Most live up to 200 years. 

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#earthday #climatechange 

#california #desert #deserthotsprings #joshuatree #extinction #drsuess 

#nationalparks #desertflowers #mohavedesert #desertdandilions #roadtrip #u2 #bono #savetheplanet #stillhaventfoundwhatimlookingfor

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It’s very important to me to support local farmers. All of this was $26. 🍅🥦🥕🥬🥔🌶🧅⁣

So far, I’ve used onion, bell pepper, carrots, celery, tomatoes (along with okra I had) for veggie gumbo. I baked potatoes & steamed broccoli, carrots & zucchini. ⁣

What would you make?

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Pumpkin spice everything might be taking over but in Southern California we’ve still have a bit of summer produce.

Tomatoes and cucumbers are full of water and electrolytes and gazpacho is perfect on hot days. (The recipe is on the blog)

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#gazpacho #fall #pumpkinspice #summerproduce #tomatoes #cucumbers #delicious #food52 #homegrown #wfpb #farmersmarket #shoplocal #endoftheseason #foodphotography #healthyfood #feedfeedvegan #homemade #lunch #soup #veganfood #veganrecipes #usewhatyouhave #bitesizedliving

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This is after only 3 weeks! I can’t tell you how happy my tower garden makes me 😊 I go out every morning to check on it, talk to the plants, tell them how beautiful they are & clearly they’re thriving! 🪴 🌱 ⁣
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Gardening has had a huge impact on my mental health 🧑🏻‍🌾 It has helped my anxiety & depression and I’m growing my own food! ⁣
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May is mental health awareness month, the theme for 2021 is Tools to Thrive. Gardening has been one of those tools for me. 🧰 ⁣
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Food insecurity is a huge problem, the pandemic proved that. Growing your own food can give you a sense of certainty. I plan on putting out a basket so I can share with my neighbors.🧺 I’m hoping for a bumper crop this year 🙏🏻⁣
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TowerGardens have been featured on @nbcnews and @dailymail as 1 of the top aeroponic systems. ⁣
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#aeroponicgardens #organic #gardeningismytherapy #mentalhealthawareness #tools #anxiety #depression #recovery #recoverywarrior #organicgardening #naturephotography #vegetablegarden #gardening #growyourownfood #gardener #aeroponics #towergarden #vegetablegardening #lovemygarden #gardensofinstagram ⁣ (at Riverside, California)
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My kind of salad 🥗 . . . . #eatallthecolors #avocado #beets #greens #sprouts #butternutsquash #homegrown #yum #eattherainbow #farmersmarket #inseasonnow #delicious #salad #vegan #healthy #towertotable #wfpb #growyourownfood #foodphotography #zerowaste #sustainable #plantbased #wfpb #bitesizedliving https://www.instagram.com/p/CGYgn1QlkJ_/?igshid=1hqhuidmh7gmt