Happy Spring everyone!!! Look what I found in the garden a couple of days ago! Yep! Rhubarb! We transplanted it out of a big pot and into the ground last fall, crossed our fingers it would survive and it did! We haven’t gotten anything really harvest-able off of it in the past…
Happy Monday everyone! What a week it’s been! We had beautiful weather pretty much every day this week except for Sunday, which was absolutely disgusting…windy and grey and dusty and gross…so darn windy that plastic to one of my hoop houses is pretty much torn to shreds. We attached a…
Today we… Painted old pallets, wrapped weed cloth around them and stuffed soil into them Cleared more rocks & leveled the ground where the bees will be moved to Put some stakes in the ground Secured two of the three pallets to their stakes Created trellising above each pallet for more vertical grow space…
Happy Friday everyone! This week has been super long and super exhausting. I manage an after school and summer camp for girls and this week we held our annual Spring Break Camp. While it’s been full of lots of fun and a ton of learning (we focus on hands on,…
After much debate, we’ve decided to move the bees. Don’t worry, we’re not moving them to someone else’s property. Instead, we’re moving them from our front yard into our backyard. Why? Well, the main reason is because, as we learned last year, it turns out I am extremely allergic to…
Last weekend we had the joy of spending several hours with some of our favorite people in the world who were visiting from Colorado. Good friends, good times, wonderful joy. It really never ceases to amaze me how much joy is contained in the littlest person…and how that joy can…
This week I, again, didn’t get into the hoop houses. It snowed all day Saturday and Sunday it just wasn’t warm enough for me to feel comfortable opening them up and letting all the heat out. So, this weeks harvests are only from under the grow lights (thank goodness for…
Alright…here it is…our brand new chick brooder AKA Version #3! The chicks have been living in it for a couple of weeks now and it’s worked out wonderfully! I talked about our other two brooders here. Tool Lady re-used the wood that was our original coop (it’s all just been…