Happy Friday, everyone! I hope the week has treated you well and the coming weekend is divine! Diving right in… Plant something: Believe it or not, I have not planted a single seed since last week. We hit a bit of a cold snap…rain, snow, grey grossness…for a few days and I was reminded that we still have a ways to…
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Well, we’ve made our first ever batch of beef jerky and it is delicious!!! We pulled a 2.24 pound beef round steak from the chest freezer and let it thaw out about half way before beginning to cut it into about 1/4 inch slices (partially frozen meat is much easier to cut). Then we divvied up all our slices into three…
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Featured
Social Media and the internet really are amazing things. Who knew?! A couple of weeks ago I saw a facebook post from Kitchen Gardeners International that mentioned a journalist was looking for garden bloggers who had ideas about up-cycling to share. I emailed in and found myself quickly talking to Jennifer Steil, the journalist who was putting together a piece for ivillage.com.…
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Last Christmas, my brother and sister-in-law made each of the siblings a Planter Chair! Such a great idea and wonderful gift! From the looks of it, all you have to do is take an old chair, cut a hole in the seat of it and attach a hanging basket to the underside (they used nails and then bent them to…
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If our fruit trees don’t suffer a hard freeze for the next month and a half, this just might be our first year of real fruit harvests (you know, real as in more than 8 or 10 apples)! Oh, my fingers are crossed and I am so hopeful, but with the warm winter we’ve had everything is blooming way too…
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Harvest Monday
Happy Monday, everyone! Well, I haven’t closed the hoop houses all week, but from what I understand, the weather is supposed to turn today ad we just might get some snow. I’ll believe it when I see it, but I’m really not surprised. In some potentially exciting news, we just may have figured out what to do with the backyard!…
