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Hi, I'm Dave and thanks for visiting. I garden in Zone 6b in southern Indiana, and I blog here about gardening, nature and food.
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Tag Archives: soap
In A Lather
Thursday was soap making day here at Happy Acres. We’ve got several new creations we want to try, and after a busy summer it was finally time to get down to it. And since so much time is spent on … Continue reading
New Project for 2011 (or Making an Impact)
I’m really excited to be involved with a new gardening project for 2011. And it’s pretty interesting how it all came about. Back early this year, my wife and I visited a local craft show to do some research on … Continue reading
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Tagged food pantry garden, Gardening, Impact community garden, soap, teaching
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A Little Bit of Soap
Today was an exciting day here at Happy Acres. We got to try out our first batch of soap! It had cured for 4 weeks, and was a basic, unscented soap recipe. We both tried it out in the shower … Continue reading
Is It Soap Yet?
We made our first batch of soap here 3 weeks ago, and now we are waiting for it to be ready. And waiting. And waiting…you get the picture. We are waiting for our cold process soap to cure, which takes … Continue reading

