• Grow

    Independence Days

    Happy Friday, everyone! It’s been another wild week of unseasonably warm weather this week.  All I want to do is put seeds in the ground, but I have to keep reminding myself that we still have almost two full months of potential frost.  So, instead of putting seeds in the ground outside, I just keep putting more and more under…

  • Grow

    Beans & Peas & Roots, Oh My!

    Yesterday morning I got out and played in the garden for a bit.  I’ve been wanting to plant some fava beans (broad beans) and some snap peas but keep getting distracted by work and school and wind and the bees and…well…a million other things. Of course, the yard is a mess.  We’ve been working on several projects which usually means…

  • Eat,  Grow,  Harvest,  Prepare

    Independence days

    Happy Friday, everyone!!! Man, has this week felt crazy to anyone else?  Not sure what’s going on, but it’s been a little batty around here.  Well, thank goodness for Fridays and warm weather…I could really use some meditative time in the yard…  🙂 Plant something (under grow lights)…I’m kind of out of control: Loofah Eggplant Italian Heirloom Tomatoes Yellow Taxi…

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    DIY,  Grow

    Pallet Gardening – Planning

    I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what to actually plant in our new Pallet Beds since, before last Friday, they hadn’t fully existed in our imaginations, let alone in our yard 😉   Until then we thought we’d just put a fence around the new bee space…this is so much better though! See, sometimes Tool Lady and I…

  • Bees & Pollinators

    Bee Relocation – Settling In

    Well, I don’t have any new pictures to show you of the bee relocation, because the weather was absolutely gross today!  It was so windy all I could do was check on the chickens and hoop houses while trying my best to not get blown over!  I do however, want to say that last nights move went very smoothly!  With…

  • Bees & Pollinators,  DIY

    Bee Relocation Prep

    Today we… Painted old pallets, wrapped weed cloth around them and stuffed soil into them Cleared more rocks & leveled the ground where the bees will be moved to Put some stakes in the ground Secured two of the three pallets to their stakes Created trellising above each pallet for more vertical grow space and to crate a barrier for the bees to fly…