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    Bean TeePee – Supersized

    Last weekend we strung some rope from our two raised beds at the end of our porch up through the slats in our portal (about 10-12 feet high) in an effort to give our Trail of Tears Beans something to hold on to. I am really happy with the way it looks now and can’t wait for the beans to…

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    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday everyone! Something very exciting happened this week!  We harvested our first three tomatoes!!!  Yep, you read that right…two Yellow Taxi Tomatoes and one cherry tomato!  Oh man!  I guess that starting those seeds under the grow lights in February really paid off 🙂 We also harvested our first dill, the last of the over-wintered carrots, and some more…

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    Drip Irrigation

    After much procrastination, we have finally purchased all of the necessary items and tools to install drip irrigation in our front and back yards.  We purchased everything yesterday morning and Tool Lady spent most of the day running it through all the beds in the front yard while I pulled tomato suckers, harvested turnips seeds, helped out a bit, placed…

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    Recycled Celery

    About a week ago I was pulling off a few stalks of store bought celery when I remembered a friend of mine saying that she had cut her celery off its base and plopped that base back into a bowl of water.  Shortly thereafter, she said it was growing new celery stalks! What?!  Celery can re-grow?  Yeah right!  Wait…that sounds…

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    {this moment}

    {this moment inspired by Soule Mama}  If you feel inspired to share your moment, please leave a link to your moment in the comments below for all to see.

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    Change Affected?

    Last night, while checking on Broody’s food and water, we found this… Yep, that’s an actual egg!  And guess what?  She wasn’t laying on it!!!  She was walking around, eating, drinking and being calm!  Amazing! Do you see the egg at the bottom of the photo?And Broody at the top, having a little drink? It’s probably too soon to tell…