Harvest

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Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!Last fall, we decided to let our two raised beds/hoop houses in the front yard rest for the season. We had planted them out continuously for two straight years and decided it might be best to give them the winter to just be.Instead, we planted out one of the newer raised beds in the back yard with greens,…
April 29, 2013
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

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 from our own chickens in our own backyard!  Yes, I really…
April 1, 2013
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!Welp, it's that time of year again...warm days and chilly evenings followed by snow on the ground and the reminder that it really is still winter, despite the Spring Fever that keeps tempting me to put some seeds in the ground on the sunny days.  Soon enough, though...soon enough!Until then, though, at least our old stand bys can…
February 25, 2013
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Well, after what feels like a very long time, we are finally harvesting again!  I always forget how a few greens growing under grow lights can brighten up our lunches and make me yearn for Spring and all that She brings with her!In addition to the hopefulness of greens, our ladies are happily laying again as well.  There were a…
February 4, 2013
The Not-So-Great Potato Harvest

The Not-So-Great Potato Harvest

I had high hopes for our potatoes this year.  I purchased 10 pounds of German Butterball seed potatoes last spring and added them to a few random (sprouting) potatoes we had laying around (a few red and a few purple).  We had new beds and old beds to plant them in as well as a few garbage cans for the…
November 28, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!Well, I am happy to report that we finally harvested some beets! Three full pounds of them! These guys were planted in the late spring in one of my bio intensive beds (corn, bush beans and beets) as an experiment and did pretty well.  They were a little slow to grow, I think because the corn grew so…
November 26, 2012