Another season has arrived, another autumn with Tend Magazine. Saying Time Flies may seem glib, but it is true. This issue has a lot about home, finding your sense of place, celebrating autumn, and gathering all fall has to offer and storing it for winter. 

My section, of course, is all about food and herbs. Elke found a few game experts who wow us with their recipes for partridge, rabbit, and pheasant. Learn all about mushrooms! Kirsten shares how to ferment mushrooms, and I show you how to grow your own, preserve them, and cook with them! Debbie shares her recipe for elderberry syrup, which is perfect for this time of year. Kim tells us many ways to preserve the autumn harvest - she even shares her secret "Kim"chi recipe. There is also a homemade granola 101, and blending your own tub teas. And that is just my section! Throughout the magazine there are articles about building an off-grid village, going off grid, creating a home. There is autumn reading, and of course there are patterns. Make a tweed cowl, build an indoor campfire craft with the littles, and make some felt stuffies. 124 pages of great things to take us into autumn. 
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​I love our contributors. Have I told you that recently? Everyone is so passionate about what they do, what they make, and they love to share with others. We are lucky to have so many creative, dynamic writers/makers/doers. They are fabulous!

Kirsten shows you how you can make delicious fermented snacks from revived ferments you already have your fridge!

Kimberly has some amazing recipes using dandelions (dandelion mint chimichurri!!!) ! These dandelion recipes are delicious and healthy, giving that punch of flavor and vibrancy from the garden after a long winter. 

Debbie has an easy to make DIY homemade deodorant - without the chemicals of the store bought brands.

Evie has a trio of custards which just scream spring.

And I have contributed many recipes for DIY natural home cleaning products (room spray, diy dryer sheets, tub scrub, counter cleaner, carpet fresh and MORE),  cleaning and refreshing indoor air after a long winter, and using scraps to make liquid gold.

And that is just my section! This issue is 182 pages (more like a book!) of spring goodness and healthy home from many awesome contributors (like Heather, Debbie, Joanna, Laura, and even an interview with Teri!). We have new contributors and guest spots every issue, and so I look forward to the magazine as much as anyone! ;)

Tend Magazine is a digital magazine which you can download to your computer and/or device and read at your leisure, as well as refer back to whenever you want to try a recipe or pattern!

Click here to use code QALV21 for 20% off of the Spring 2015 issue of Tend - for one week only!

Ah, weekends. Winters are long here, and after half a year of cold -  just when you think that is IT you cannot do one more winter - THIS happens. An emerald land with a cobalt sky. Wisconsin wildflowers blooming in a riot of color everywhere you go. The garden. Not too hot yet, with cool breezy evenings. That is why we are here.

Hope you had a lovely weekend!
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And, of course, I couldn't forget the drawing for the Summer 2014 Tend Magazine giveaway! 

It is hard to believe that it has been just over a year since I told Debbie that I'd love to be a contributor to her new magazine project. It was perfect timing - I had been writing again, developing recipes, taking photos and scribbling away in my notebooks. I wanted to start publishing again and get to where I was ready to start on the always in the back of my mind book(s). To push myself with deadlines and themes and recipe development. While you have now only seen two issues (Spring 2014 released in March, Summer 2014 just released this week), I just submitted yet another issue of content this week to my chief editor of awesomeness, bringing it up to four for us, and we will be starting on the fifth!  I was initially focused mainly on my photography and writing, but I have also found that I enjoy managing a section. I have been working with several great people who are contributing articles to the Whole Foods and Herbal Health category and it has been fun to brainstorm ideas, tie it all together, and see what they come up with! 

Last weekend the Summer 2014 issue launched. It is lovely. Everything summer should be. Important conversations about ethical business and consumers, sustainability, economy, families, mothering. Gorgeous gorgeous vibrant home shots celebrating outdoor summer living. All kinds of summery recipes ~ grilling, side dishes, drinks, cold treats, using herbs, herbal sun relief and summer vinegar. Peeks into beautiful sustainable living. Really fun projects for kids (it is going to take us all summer to work through them - spy kits, secret messages, ciphers - SO COOL!). Plus several lovely craft projects for wee ones, patterns patterns patterns, DIY projects. Book reviews. I really could go on and on. 166 pages (more of a book than a magazine!) of amazing things to keep you busy, happy, surrounded in beauty, thinking, and satiated all summer long. So many talented people have contributed, and I am like a kid in a candy shop myself seeing all of the lovely projects and articles. 

So, to celebrate the launch of the latest issue (did I mention it is 166 pages!?!), I am doing a drawing for one FREE copy of the Summer 2014 Issue of Tend Magazine! 

Here is how to enter: Leave a comment on this post. You can earn additional comments by liking my Wholly Rooted Facebook page, liking the Tend Magazine Facebook page, sharing this post via Facebook, Twitter, or your blog, or following Tend Magazine on Instagram. So, you can earn up to 7 entries! Be sure to post a separate comment here for each action you take to receive the entry. I will pick one winner from a random number generator draw using the comment numbers. You have until midnight Sunday June 8. I will announce the winner on Monday June 9!

And, of course, go check out the preview of the latest issue! Be sure to visit the Free Projects page for a yummy herbal infused water recipe.

I am excited to announce a new project I have been working on which has finally launched! Almost a year ago a friend emailed me asking if I would be interested in contributing to her newest project – a magazine filled with things to do with our children, handwork, craft, gardening, homesteading, whole foods, and treading gently on this earth. Of course I said yes, and am happy to announce I am a contributing writer and Whole Foods and Herbal Health Editor for TEND Magazine, an online quarterly publication. So many talented people contributed to this premiere issue – I am proud to be a part of it!

"TEND magazine aims to be at the forefront of mindful living, focusing on 
environmental, sustainable concerns, providing information and aspiration, 
driving real environmental change through change at the individual level."

"TEND magazine aims to nurture the bond between a parent and their child,
between families and the earth, and between individual families to form community.
It aims to strengthen the bonds and connections we have to each other and the earth,
recognising and nourishing our natural dispositions to care for and educate our families
in the ways that seem right to us. We aim to stir an awakening for the need to slow down,
consume less and walk gently on the earth. We aim to be aspirational and utterly beautiful
and design-lead. We like to grow some of our own food, support local farmers, eat as much
healthy organic produce as we realistically can, gather with friends to enjoy home-cooked
meals and to enjoy the bond of community. We encourage the need to consume less and
make more, to envisage homesteading and sustainable living as realistic aspirations. "

Inside this spring issue is something for everyone – ideas for the home, garden, crafting, knitting, sewing, activities and crafts for children, seeds, homesteading, whole food recipes, herbal DIY, foraging – almost 200 pages! So much goodness! 

The magazine website also has some lovely freebies  - printable seed packets and a lovely bird drawstring bag tutorial  which you can download right from the website, as well as a free bird embroidery pattern when you sign up for the newsletter! 

You can find TEND online at www.tendmagazine.co.uk, or visit the Facebook page (be sure to LIKE it so you can get updates! 

As a special bonus, leave a comment on my post here for a chance to win a free copy of the Spring issue of TEND! I will pick one winner on Friday. {closed - thanks for all of your comments!}

If you don’t win, you still can receive a 20% discount on the first issue by clicking here and using the code ROOTED20 when you place your order (there is a spot to enter the code on the very last page of checkout process). 



Be sure to visit the other blog stops  for more chances to win a free copy!
6th March Merry at Patch of Puddles
7th March Rachelle at Tales of Ted & Agnes
10th March Tif at Dottie Angel
11th March Heather at Shivaya Naturals 


Be sure to leave a comment!


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March 7 - I closed the comments and have announced the winner. Don't forget - you can use the code ROOTED20 when placing your order and receive 20% off - code good through March 21.