Marty's Meals is a holistic pet-food company based in Santa Fe, NM and in Boulder, CO that makes a wide range of sustainably sourced raw and gently cooked food for both cats and dogs. Now, at first the link between pet food and Modern Home Economics might not be apparent, so let me explain. I believe that good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle applies to the whole family, fuzzy faces included. Too often we end up spending thousands on our pets when they fall ill, and unfortun

This past Friday I had the pleasure of meeting Cathi from Gertrude Made. I fell in love with her work the first time I ran across her Instagram account and continue to be more and more inspired by her as time goes on. For those of you who aren't familiar with her amazing work, she is a dressmaker from Australia who makes her "frocks" out of carefully selected vintage barkcloth. You can see some of her designs here. She designed her own patterns for the dresses and sews by siz

Have you ever wondered about the fruit growing in public spaces around your city? Would you like to get to know your city better while eating seasonal fruit at no cost? Tune in as I interview Ethan from Falling Fruit, an online interactive foraging map! Falling Fruit is a website dedicated to worldwide urban foraging. There you will find an edible map that is described on their website as "a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets". They go on to say

"This episode is for anyone who likes food! Brian Coppom and I discuss our local farmers market (BCFM), why farmers markets are such an important part of a community, and how they make buying and preparing food more intentional, much easier and truly meaningful." Despite the snow that our area received last weekend, spring is here! One of the signs of spring that I especially love is when the farmers market opens again for the year. The opening of the market really adds to th

"In this pilot episode of The Modern Domestique Podcast, future guest Nancy Allawos Thompson interviews Stacey Keating, founder of The Modern Domestique about her vision for how to sustainably revive home economics for today's generation." I really enjoyed recording this first episode of The Modern Domestique Podcast! My goal with this pilot episode is to help listeners and readers get to know a bit more about me, and a bit more about my intentions for the blog and website. I

Last week, I took Buster to an off-leash trail not far from our house. Usually, he does really great off-leash: He comes when called and pretty much stays on the trail the whole way. This day was different, though. It was a new trail to both of us, and I didn't know that on the other side of the fence lived what seemed like hundreds of prairie dogs, proudly standing atop the holes in the ground that lead to their homes. Buster actually saw them beyond the fence before I did,

Last May (which was quite a few months before I started this blog), I started noticing lots of people I follow on Instagram posting about "Me-Made-May". I had never heard of this before, and while I understood the general premise I wasn't sure how all these people knew about it. Turns out, Zoe from "So, Zo...What Do You Know?" came up with this great concept that "celebrates all the love and hard work that so many of us put into crafting unique, special handmade clothing and

Next up in the Spring Cleaning Series is the Bathroom and Laundry Room. Much like cleaning the kitchen, there isn't too much to go-through and it's pretty straightforward. I have combined the bathroom and laundry room in this list because they are often located in the same place in smaller homes (like mine), and if they aren't in the same place, they do have similar things that need cleaning (drains, sinks, etc). You'll find below a general guideline list for both the bathroo

Food. What a huge subject. Let me start by saying that I am a Certified Nutrition Therapy Practitioner. Now, this doesn't mean that I have the magic diet that will help everyone achieve their ideal weight or health goal (I know, I can hear the "boo's" as I type). But, what it does mean is that this will be a section of the blog that aims to make sense of all the different things you hear and read about the "perfect diet". Looks, um, delicious and nutritious? Cooking and nutri

Dr. David Knapp said something many years ago that I think still holds true and also applies to healthy living: "The time is now at hand to direct past traditions of problem-solving toward a new focus. The basic mission of [Home Economics] is to improve the quality of life." I think that really paying attention to if we are living healthy lives (or paying attention to our quality of life) is often overlooked. Sure, most of us think that we are living a healthy life because we