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SIBO: More Than Just A Tummy Ache

January 10, 2018 By Heather Blackmore Leave a Comment

Abigail White Sox Game after SIBO

You never realize the importance of the passenger seat airbag "ON" light illuminating until it doesn't any longer. Little things like this are taken for granted. Kinda like how the sun will always rise. Until it doesn't. So when the light glowed last week (for the first time in over a year) as my daughter Abigail settled into the seat, we were silent. It's significance meant more than just the reassurance it provided, it meant my daughter was healing. The sun was rising and man was it bright. At 82 pounds and 13 years old, she was slight but strong, her weight enough to allow her to sit in the front passenger seat. This was June 2016 and around this time, things started to change. Long tearful stints in the bathroom, tummy aches after every meal or snack. A general feeling of malaise that ...

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Filed Under: Health, SIBO (pronounced See-BO), Top Posts Tagged With: IBS, SIBO

Raised Bed Garden Glow Up Part 2: Staining

September 30, 2022 By Heather Blackmore Leave a Comment

staining a raised bed

Thanks to Vermont Natural Coatings for partnering with me on this post. All thoughts and opinions belong to yours truly. When it comes to staining my raised beds, it's gotta be clean. If you go to any home improvement center looking for exterior wood stain, you'll find shelf after shelf of options that will do the job. Very few however, offer the reassurance I require of anything I use in and around my home. The thought of chemicals invading the soil in my organic garden and infiltrating the fruits and veg I grow for my family creeps me out. I've always been conscious of the foods we eat, especially so following the diagnosis of my daughter's digestive disorder in 2017. I became an even bigger food snob. Quality of life comes down to lifestyle and clean food is a huge part of that ...

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Filed Under: Food, Gardening, My Garden, SIBO (pronounced See-BO), Uncategorized Tagged With: food garden, organic wood stain, PolyWhey Exterior Wood Stain, raised beds, staining wood, Vermont Natural Coatings, wood stain

How Do Insects Survive in a Garden Surrounded By Fear?

March 2, 2020 By Heather Blackmore 14 Comments

Bumblebee on allium

For years I've feared my garden was nothing more than a siren's song. A place full of beautifully enticing things birds and insects can't resist. And, in recent years, the place they've unwittingly come to die. My neighborhood has about 300 homes. Fire blight ridden Callery pear trees line the parkway and most of the ash trees that populated the other streets 15 years ago have been leveled due to emerald ash bore. It's not pretty. But wait, it gets worse. About eight years ago, many of the homeowners jumped on a "good deal" set up by another homeowner that involved the mass annihilation of insects. It's incredible what fear and lack of knowledge can do. This lethal cocktail fueled a Facebook neighborhood sign-up list for quarterly insecticide application on houses, fences, swing sets. ...

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Filed Under: Gardening, Health, My Garden Tagged With: book, Doug Tallamy, Homegrown National Park, insecticide, insects, pollinators, sustainability

Six Tips for Managing Food Allergies on Vacation

August 29, 2019 By Heather Blackmore 2 Comments

allergy friendly bakery

Food factors into everything. How we socialize, celebrate, train, relax, connect, vacation. It's the vacation part that scared me most when my daughter, Abigail, was diagnosed in 2016, with Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) and allergies to soy, nuts and eggs. We can't fly by the seat of our pants and eat anywhere. Every move requires a plan of attack. While I still approach vacation with a bit of trepidation, I have a better handle on how, who and what to ask when it comes to eating on the road. The key to ensuring that fun is had by all lies in your ability to take the focus off food and make vacation about the experience. Which is exactly how we rolled this summer in Asheville, NC. Pre-Trip Prep Hotels don't work for us. Without a place to store and prepare food, we're ...

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Filed Under: Food, Health, SIBO (pronounced See-BO) Tagged With: Ashville, Biltmore, food allergy, North Carolina, SIBO, travel tips, vacation tips, Vortex doughnuts, WNC Farmers Market

Spicy Hot Chocolate for a Chicago Deep Freeze

January 30, 2019 By Heather Blackmore Leave a Comment

Pouring Hot Chocolate

As I'm writing this, the wind is howling, the furnace hasn't stopped and the current temperature is -26F in the Chicago area. With the wind chill...-47F. Ugh. The dog is resting at my feet in a sweater to which she's reluctantly adjusting and all I can think is how grateful I am that the garden is blanketed with seven inches of snow as we wait this out. Frost quakes, or cryoseisms, have been rattling the garden all morning and seem to have subsided now that the sun's out. Cryoseisms occur when saturated soil endures a massive temperature drop. The soil expands, stressing its surroundings, until the pressure becomes so great that a tiny explosion occurs. While I didn't feel the earth shake, the quake that occurred at 11am was enough to wake my daughter. School's closed for the next few days ...

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Filed Under: Food, Health, SIBO (pronounced See-BO) Tagged With: homemade hot chocolate, hot chocolate, spicy hot chocolate hot drinks, winter drinks

Egg-Free Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies

March 1, 2018 By Heather Blackmore Leave a Comment

Steaming Coffee Oatmeal Cookies

When my daughter was diagnosed with SIBO and allergies to eggs, soy and nuts, it quickly became apparent that cookies were a no-no. Gasp! If you find an affordable egg-free cookie that meets the criteria to keep her gut healthy, I'm all ears. Since her diagnosis last year, I've spent a lot of time in the kitchen trying to come up with recipes that were appealing to all of us. What mom has the time to create individual meal plans? And what I found is that it is possible to have an egg-free, relatively healthy cookie that we all can enjoy. I say relatively because butter, flour and sugar are involved, but it's a cookie for crying out loud and the butter's grass-fed, the sugar's brown and the flour is whole wheat. I also added ground flax seed for some nutritional punch in the form of Omega-3 ...

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Filed Under: Food, Health, SIBO (pronounced See-BO) Tagged With: cookies, cranberry oatmeal cookies, Egg free cookies

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It’s 1 degree today! And my @vego_garden raised It’s 1 degree today! And my @vego_garden raised beds won’t see seeds or plants for a few more months. Having built and filled them last fall, it’s nice knowing they’re ready to go just as soon as Old Man Winter decides to loosen his grip. Check out my bio for the link to the beds! They’re on sale! 😉#vegogarden #sustainabilityyourway #raisedbeds #raisedbedgardening #backyardgardener #backyardgarden #foodgarden #growyourown #growwhatyoulove #zone5b #chicagogarden #hereshegrows
It’s a great time to butter your branches! Unswe It’s a great time to butter your branches! Unsweetened natural peanut butter spread on your tree branches is a great source of calories and fats for birds at a time when food sources aren’t as plentiful. I do this for them and me as I’ve been an avid bird watcher since I was little. It’s something I inherited from my dad who used to walk around England’s @ntkingstonlacy estate with a jackdaw, a small grey crow, perched on his shoulder. His grandfather was a gardener living on the grounds. I can’t imagine a garden without birds. #forthebirds #birdfood #birdfeeding #backyardbirder #birdwatching #ilovebirds #birdfeedingtips #forthebirds #birdloversofinstagram #winterbirds #birdfeeding #peanutbuttertime #urbanbirding #chicagobirding #feedthebirds #highcalories #birdlover #chicagogarden #hereshegrows
It’s going to be many weeks before I can plant m It’s going to be many weeks before I can plant my @vego_garden raised beds. The soil is frozen solid! But it’s not too soon to think about crops that will germinate in cool soil and extend my growing season into the chilly first weeks of spring. As soon as soil is workable and around 50 degrees F or 10 degrees C, direct sow peas, spinach, arugula, salad greens and radish. With the exception of the peas which take about 70 days to mature, all are quick-turn crops producing delicious, harvestable veg in 35 days or less. It’s a great way to get the most bang for my garden buck! #vegogarden #sustainabilityyourway #coolseasoncrops #earlyspringgarden #raisedbedgarden #vegetablegardening #potager #growwhatyoulove #foodgardening #eatyourveg #urbangarden #directsow #plantseeds #backyardgardening #hereshegrows
Another reason to leave those hydrangea blooms up Another reason to leave those hydrangea blooms up for winter interest! Your snow woman will have the best hairdo. Add to that long arborvitae lashes and a rose hip mouth and she’s one lovely lady. I miss my girls, especially on days when the snow packs so well. Today’s one of those days. If they were home, we’d have the best time making our snow girl. But I built one by myself and was joined by my dear friend and neighbor. #missingyou❤️ #snowman #snowwoman #snowday #momlife #emptynestmom #wintergarden #lovemydaughters #gardenlife #chicagogardener #hereshegrows
Do you grow asiatic lilies? I have a few varieties Do you grow asiatic lilies? I have a few varieties in my garden and they thrive despite my heavy clay soil. The secret is full sun and fast draining soil all year long. Wet soil leads to rot and these beauties are on the west side of my garden, the hottest part next to the house. Things dry out quickly here which is the key to their success. In order of appearance: Forever Susan, Black Beauty and Conca D’Or. #asiaticlily #orienpetlily #lillies #trumpetlily #fragrantflowers #summerbulbs #flowerbulbs #perennialgarden #fullsun #sunnygarden #chicagogarden #zone5bgardening #urbangarden #backyardgarden #hereshegrows #gardenideas #gardendesignideas #bigflowers #turkscap #summergarden
Have you decided what you’ll be growing this yea Have you decided what you’ll be growing this year in your veg garden? I can’t wait to get out here and get growing! My goal last year was to make this small space as productive as possible for 2023. The addition of two 6-in-1 @vego_garden raised beds along the fence means I can take advantage of the narrow space and also use the fence to grow up. Configured in this way, the beds are just two feet wide, allowing me ample room to get a cart in here while still growing plenty of veg. You’d be surprised just how much you can grow in a 6.5’x2’ bed! Follow me and we’ll grow together! #vegogarden #sustainabilitymyway #vegetablegarden #foodgarden #smallspacegardening #smallspacegarden #raisedbeds #backyardgarden #growfood #organicgarden #growwhatyoulove #growyourown #eattherainbow #potager #youarewhatyoueat #gyo #mygardenlife #chicagogarden #urbangardeningideas #urbangarden #zone5b #hereshegrows
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