• Eat,  Grow,  Harvest,  Prepare

    Independence days

    Happy Friday, everyone!!! Man, has this week felt crazy to anyone else?  Not sure what’s going on, but it’s been a little batty around here.  Well, thank goodness for Fridays and warm weather…I could really use some meditative time in the yard…  🙂 Plant something (under grow lights)…I’m kind of out of control: Loofah Eggplant Italian Heirloom Tomatoes Yellow Taxi…

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    In a Couple of Months…

    These little cuties will be giving us…  A lot more of these!  WooHoo!!! We’ve gone through periods of egg shortages this winter, but I’m thinking/hoping that won’t be the case next year 😉

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    Pushing Through

    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 two years, but I’m really hoping this year will be…

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    Harvest Monday

    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 new (not big enough) strip of plastic over the top…

  • Bees & Pollinators,  DIY

    Bee Relocation Prep

    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 and to crate a barrier for the bees to fly…

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    Independence Days

    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, experiential science activities throughout the week), I am completely wiped…