This is my very first Harvest Monday post hosted by Daphne’s Dandelions!!! Daphne hosts these Monday posts by not only blogging about what she has harvested, but by also allowing fellow bloggers to add their names to her post as well so we can all see what each of us is up to! While there are really not many items ready…
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Sometimes, when I write a blog, I want to only show the good, beautiful, happiness that is happening with the yard or the chickens. Don’t ask me why, maybe it’s just in my nature. However, it’s not the whole truth and I know that I enjoy reading of other urban homesteading struggles because those who share their struggles are telling…
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Thinning the Carrots
After a hard day at work Monday, I came home and played in the garden for a bit. There’s nothing quite like finding some perspective in amongst the sprouting of new life 🙂 While finding some perspective, I realized that the carrots were a little out of control and that, if I didn’t give them some space, they would choke…
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So…What the heck is a 14 day pantry challenge? Well, I’ve been reading a lot of blogs in my copious free time (huh?) and came across the March Pantry Challenge which was apparently inspired by this blog and this challenge. The goal is to eat what you have in your pantry, fridge and freezer for a set period of time. Some people do it to…
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Today was a big…er…HUGE planting day! We planted about a million (no joke) seeds in our front and back yards in addition to a ton and a half of Wild Flower seeds both in beds and back behind our Top Bar Hive (the bees should arrive this week)! We still have another couple of weeks until our guaranteed frost free nights,…
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A Growing Problem…
I have a problem. A growing problem. I want to grow everything and it’s a problem. For real. I went to grab a couple of bags of soil yesterday morning to amend a couple of our smaller beds and wound up walking out with the soil AND 9 packets of seeds. Yes, I said 9. It’s a problem. I got…
