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SLT Chat: 5 Tips for Surviving Life Today
This chat focuses on different approaches to doing the difficult things in life.


SLT Eats! Recipe Time: Noodles from Scratch and Pseudo Scampi
Watch for step-by-step instructions on making noodles and chicken scampi. Today we're making a delicious pasta dinner! Chicken scampi with noodles from scratch. Yum. It's a pseudo scampi because instead of the traditional medley of bell peppers with red onions, I only had mushroom and red onion on hand. Still super satisfying. My husband always tells me he can't stand all the scrolling to get to the recipe, so here you go: For Noodles from Scratch: 2 1/2 cups flour pinch of s


SLT Chat: Designing Food to Make Us Unhealthy
In this chat, we look at the history of junk food, its design, and how it is marketed - all foundational causes of the current health crisis seen in ultra-processed foods through looking at the 2013 Michael Moss article, The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food: https://web.archive.org/web/20130301012241/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html/ While this chat focuses on the Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food


SLT Sew-Along Burda Sailor Pants Patter 6573
In this episode of the Surviving Life Today podcast, we're making plaid sailor pants! Mentioned in the video: Burda Pattern 6573: https://simplicity.com/burda-style/bur6573 Kalour Tailor's Pencils: https://www.ttpen.com/products/kalour-12-pcs-tailors-pencil-set-sewing-fabric-pencils The material and accessories used in the video were all from JoAnn Fabrics, so no links are available for those.


SLT Chat on Breaking Systems (and how to repair them)
Join me as I talk about vertical integration in industry. What it means, how it impacts us, and what we can do about it. I discuss a few ideas for how to really break into these systems, and how we can use this opportunity to repair them. Mentioned in video: SLT Chat: Understanding Neoliberalism. Now What?: https://youtu.be/EEhVvVdK9Hk Heather Cox Richardson: https://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson Dr. Joanne Freeman: https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755 Loaf &


SLT Loaf & Leaf Update: Farm Days and Expansion
We talk about the next steps planned for Loaf & Leaf and what farm days are planned. As mentioned in the video, we will begin to have Farm Workdays soon. There are only a few tickets available as we learn how all of this will work. Only visitors with tickets will be permitted entry. Tickets for March 28th: https://www.loafnleaftx.com/event-details/farm-workday-and-training-2026-03-28-10-00 Tickets for April 11th: https://www.loafnleaftx.com/event-details/farm-workday-and-tra
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