Happy Friday, everyone! I hope the week has treated you well and the coming weekend is divine! Diving right in… Plant something: Believe it or not, I have not planted a single seed since last week. We hit a bit of a cold snap…rain, snow, grey grossness…for a few days and I was reminded that we still have a ways to…
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Well, we’ve made our first ever batch of beef jerky and it is delicious!!! We pulled a 2.24 pound beef round steak from the chest freezer and let it thaw out about half way before beginning to cut it into about 1/4 inch slices (partially frozen meat is much easier to cut). Then we divvied up all our slices into three…
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Last Christmas, my brother and sister-in-law made each of the siblings a Planter Chair! Such a great idea and wonderful gift! From the looks of it, all you have to do is take an old chair, cut a hole in the seat of it and attach a hanging basket to the underside (they used nails and then bent them to…
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I’ve had a few requests for a post on how to build a top bar hive. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, I though it might be best to simply give you the link to the source. So, courtesy of Tool Lady, here’s the link… Free Top Bar Hive Plans Of course, Tool Lady tweaked them a bit, but this plan…
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Hello everyone! I’d like to introduce, for the first time ever in this space, my Partner Kim (AKA Tool Lady)!!! She is going to explain how she built me what is quite possibly the best garden gift ever…a potting table!!! Full disclosure: there are a few pictures missing from this explanation since, while she was busy building, I was busy…
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A couple of weeks ago I posted about the all paper seed pods I was experimenting with. While they’ve worked out just fine, I’ve adapted my process a bit and am now using both toilet paper rolls and newspaper. The toilet paper rolls offer just a bit more support than the newspaper alone and I’ve been pretty happy with the…
