It is officially the Time of Bounty again. You’ve sown your seeds, cared for their sprouts, transplanted and top dressed the healthiest growers and are now harvesting a bounty of tomatoes and squash and corn and maybe even peppers from your garden several times a week if not every day.…
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Grow I fear that the garden has reached its peak and it’s all downhill from here. Why? Well, for the past couple of nights, it’s been cold enough for me to sleep with long pants and a long sleeved shirt on. Yep, that’s my science 😉 Really, though, the days…
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The last two weeks have brought us both sunshine and flooding (or flooding concerns, depending on where you are in relation to burn scars from all of our fires this summer). There has been hail, very intense lightening storms, tornado like conditions and crazy wind whipping around central and northern…
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Happy Monday, everyone! The garden is officially starting to explode! With so many (very) hot days, followed by a few days of light drizzles and a few heavy downpours (finally!), the garden is happy, beginning to produce and filling in very nicely! While harvests are still pretty sporadic and small,…
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Happy Monday, everyone! Grow The garden is, with the exception of one single tomato plant, doing amazingly well despite the record breaking temps we had over the past week. I anticipate many tomatoes and peppers in the coming weeks and cannot wait for our tomatillos to begin forming their cute…
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Juicing seems to be all the rage these days. If I am honest, I can get behind drinking some delicious-and-oh-so-good-for-me juice from time to time…but I’m not quite sure it’s all I could do to sustain myself for an extended period of time. Actually, I’m positive I couldn’t do it!…
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It seems that, recently, “vitamin water” has become all the rage. Not the kind you buy in the store (with all of its sugar and artificial colors), but the kind you throw together at home using whatever you have on hand. We have done this for the past few years,…
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Happy Monday, everyone! It’s been a while since I have written a Harvest Monday post simply because there hasn’t been much to report besides eggs, eggs and more eggs. Really though, honestly, I am incredibly grateful for all of our eggs! The color, the taste, the ability to harvest them…