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Up-Potting Using Recycled Plastic Containers
Instead of simply throwing away (or recycling) our empty yogurt, cottage cheese or sour cream containers, we’ve been using them to up pot our seedlings while waiting for warmer weather 🙂 All you have to do is poke a couple of holes in the bottom of the container to allow for drainage! If you want to get crafty, you can…
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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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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!…