The first pie pumpkin The first (ever) acorn squash I love the texture in this bed…Sunflowers, tomatoes and acorn squash Ashes made her way outside, Bo was not happy about it… Baby tomatoes…not suffering from butt rot The first lemon cucumber…the previous few mysteriously disappeared… The first bush snap pea…
Hilled up potatoes! A corner of our back yard Fantastic sunset shot from the back yard Chickens like beets 🙂 The Butternut Squash is starting to run! Snap Peas and beans starting the long climb! Beans make for a pretty cover crop Spinach (second planting) under a tree in the…
Round two of the snap peas is much smaller than Round One, but we already have a few flowers and one actual pea 🙂 The Blue Corn is coming along nicely! This is my first year trying this variety…my fingers are officially crossed! All of the tomatoes I started from…
Today was a big…er…HUGE planting day! We planted about a million (no joke) seeds in our front and back yards in addition to a ton and a half of Wild Flower seeds both in beds and back behind our Top Bar Hive (the bees should arrive this week)! We still…
Bandelier National Monument is a fantastically beautiful place (especially on a weekday in spring when there are not a trillion people mulling about) and has been “calling” me back for the past couple of years. We finally made the short drive yesterday (the beauty of following the public schools calendar…
How the heck do you find hope in chicken poop?!?! A few years ago I read the book Harvest For Hope by Jane Goodall and went back and forth between feeling very overwhelmed by all of the madness we have created and feeling very empowered and quite capable of making…
With spring officially upon us I find myself remembering how many hours of hard, dirty work it takes to get the yard ready for planting! All winter long, while I’m warm and cozy, hibernating and stuck inside, I fantasize about being in the yard with the sun on my back…
With the time change (and my body’s inability to figure out when to sleep and when to wake) also comes more light and Spring being (officially) in view! HooRay!!! Last weekend we did a little spring cleaning and prepping…and I’m just writing about it now because it was all quite…