Last weekend was an absolute whirlwind of activity! Do you ever feel like you need another weekend to recover from your weekend? Yeah…me too! Happy Monday!!! There was the work on the chicken coop first thing Friday morning in order to help make the Ladies a bit happier after all…
Some day soon I will catch everyone up on what’s been happening in my life…in our lives…but for now, we’ll stick with the literal fruits of our labors. Sometimes, when life gets challenging, it’s best to just keep doing what you’re doing, release the things that aren’t working or that…
MATERIALS: Six 4-5 foot poles, six square feet in your yard or garden, a rubber mallet, twine or sting, beans and or sunflowers, a shovel, compost or garden soil, permission, help from at least one other person TIME FRAME: 60 minutes + growing time PROCEDURE: With permission to dig and…
Oh September, how I love and hate you all at the same time!!! The gentle glide into fall is a time of year I look forward to every year. The cooler nights, the comfy clothes, the hot tea and hot toddies, pumpkins everywhere and Halloween right around the corner…Oh, I…
Cayenne is one of those foods that people either love or they hate. If you can hack the punch of this awesome Capsicum, though, there are many health benefits of cayenne peppers that just might be worth a little heat on your tongue and in your belly. With so much…
Grow Despite the funny summer we’ve had, we are still seeing a few new items trying to get in their production before the nights get too cold… Luffa A baby Butternut Squash, trying to ripen before the cold weather descends. I’m not sure that the luffa or the butternuts will…
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned my tentative plans for the fall garden. Since then, I decided to move forward with the idea of starting our carrots indoors in toilet paper rolls with the intention of transplanting them (roll and all) into one of the beds in the front…
Just when I thought that summer was on it’s way quickly into fall, we’ve had two steady weeks of heat. Go figure, right? The garden is in full production mode, though everything is later than it was last year, and even the year before that…I still haven’t even harvested any…