Apparently, nature doesn’t like boxes. One can take a seed, plant it, watch it germinate & acquire its first true leaves, transplant it and continue to care for it while it s t r e t c h e s its roots, grows upwards and outwards, flowers, sets fruit and continues on its cycle. But, one cannot tame its natural…
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Happy Monday, everyone! I promise we harvested more than a couple of peppers, a melon and a few tomatoes! Happy Hot Peppers Our Mystery Melon! Tomato Bounty:(top row) Italian Heirloom, Sweet Small Cherry, Bi-Color Cherry, Orange Flesh Purple Smudge, Cherokee Purple(bottom row) Yellow Taxi, Black From Tula, Roma Unfortunately, due to busy-ness, those are the only three photographs that…
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BIG (unrelated to garden) NEWS! I am now, as of last Monday, officially a Big Sister through Big Brothers Big Sisters! 🙂 Usually when being “matched” with a Little through Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS), a Big & Little match is set up by the staff at BBBS using the information obtained in your interviews based on interests and similarities…
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Mystery Melon
Last year, as part of our CSA share, we received a delicious Mystery Melon. First, it looked like a Cantaloupe on the outside, but the flesh inside was green. Second, the taste fell somewhere between Honey Dew and Cantaloupe. Very interesting and incredibly delicious. So I saved some seeds. Fast forward to this June. In one of my front yard…
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The Season of Preservation
I started off the Season of Preservation with the best of intentions. I created an excel spreadsheet and planned on updating it each time we canned an item. This being only our second year of preserving anything, I was very excited about learning how to preserve a small variety of new-to-us items using both our water bath canner and our…
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Art, until about a year ago, was always one of those things that I’d done from time to time for fun. Not anything I did to earn money or to really put out into the world. Then, about a year ago, I decided to make a go of it. It’s terrifying to work hard to create something beautiful, and then…
