Happy Monday everyone! This week brought a mixture of harvests, including the first jalapeno and the first Happy Hot Peppers! Dave, I’m hoping you might have some insight/shared curiosity about why ours went straight from green to red instead of the pretty orange you’ve gotten in the past. Very interesting…I guess we’ll…
One of my favorite books is The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It by John Seymour. I love this book not only for it’s information, but for it’s inspiration. Reading it makes me feel that, eventually, we just might be able to have an actual homestead (beyond our…
If you were to be a fly on the wall in my home in the early hours of any given weekend morning, you would probably find my kitchen table looking something like this… That is because I love, love, love to plan. I have lists and diagrams and ideas and…
Happy Monday everyone!!! This weeks harvest was very exciting because it was another first for us! We harvested all our onions!!! We also had our first harvest of our second round of spinach! While a few of the plants have gone to seed already, most of them are quite happy…
Yesterday morning was beautiful. That was before the winds whipped up and coated the entire city in a gross, dusty haze (we really, really need some real rain). Before the haze, though, I got some work done in the front yard (when you wake up at the crack of dawn…