Happy Monday, everyone! Well, I am happy to report that we finally harvested some beets! Three full pounds of them! These guys were planted in the late spring in one of my bio intensive beds (corn, bush beans and beets) as an experiment and did pretty well. They were a…
Happy Monday everyone! Tool Lady taming the jungle. I escaped Homework Land just long enough to snap a couple of pictures 🙂 How do you know that your wife loves you? When she chooses to spend the majority of her Saturday cleaning up the garden and bringing in what’s left to…
Happy Monday everyone! The past week has brought us all kinds of weather…clear and cold, cloudy and rainy, clear and warm…short sleeve days followed by two layers of long sleeves and then short sleeves again. Welcome to fall in Santa Fe! The garden and chickens don’t like it very much,…
Happy Monday everyone! August is rushing by in a bit of a blur. Have you ever heard the saying that goes something like, “life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans”? Yeah…that’s the kind of the month I’ve had so far and there seems to be no end…
Do you ever have those weeks where time just zooms by and you’re not quite sure where it went? Yep, last week felt that way for me! It was the last week of the summer camp I manage and I’m not really sure where each of the days went! There…
While it always feels funny to me to start fall crops in the middle of summer, I am learning the importance of giving them the opportunity to get their roots under them well before the temperature drops. This will be our third fall and winter during which we will attempt…
Happy Monday, everyone!As the veggies are really starting to roll in, I keep finding myself thinking about how amazing it is to actually be able to grow our own food! Despite the sunburns and torn up hands, the long waiting periods and ridiculous weeds, every single harvest is a gift.…
In my continued attempt to save seeds, I am grateful that the warm (hot) weather has helped the overwintered veggies complete their cycle as well provided the perfect environment for the peppers and tomatoes to ripen. Enter a few of my favorite little promise keepers (as in, there’s so much…