Happy Independence Days everyone! With the weather still acting…well…not very winter-like, I spent a little time last weekend watering our fruit trees. The terrifying thing is that they’re already trying to bud out. Why is this terrifying? Well, because we still have a good three months of freezing and possible frosts to look forward to. Anyhow…In preparation for the warmer…
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Happy Independence days everyone! Here are this weeks accomplishments… Plant something: 1 flat of greens (Sassy Salad, Micro Greens & Spinach) Yellow Taxi Tomatoes Cherokee Purple Tomatoes Roma Tomatoes Brandywine Tomatoes I’ve got visions of tomatoes dancing in my head… Harvest something: 1 oz mixed greens 15 eggs Preserve something: I’m wondering if I can count the seeds I have…
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Here’s my very first Independence Days post! I’ve found that I’ve struggled a bit with what should actually be written here for a couple of reasons. 1) There are things we have gotten in the habit of doing and now we just do them without really thinking about it. This is a good thing, no doubt, and interesting to reflect on. 2)…
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With a full year of really gardening under our belts (we’re like newborns, I swear, there’s so much to learn!), we’re trying to figure out how to grow even more veggies in our limited space! I recently borrowed How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons from my friends at Spotty Dog Farm and took lots of notes on BioIntensive…
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When we first set up our grow lights, we planted a few flats of greens, sprouts, micro greens and wheat grass just to see what would happen. Well, it’s actually been really great! We’ve harvested enough for several meals (salads and greens for sandwiches) and have juiced wheat grass several times. We learned that wheat grass (like regular grass) will…
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Well, we have been officially freezing’ our buns for the last month, but the real challenge has popped up over the last several days! With temps falling below zero a few nights in a row (which seems to be turning into a new norm, here…at least after last February’s record breaking lows and this months lows reaching well below zero)…
