Happy Monday everyone! This first full week of the New Year has brought us a bit of a new harvest as well…Spinach!!! It’s not much, but we’ll take it! Especially since it grew in the hoop houses/wagons and they’ve been struggling so much! We also harvested a few more mixed greens from under our grow lights, but I didn’t take…
We recently discovered that some of our garlic was starting to sprout, so we decided to try our hand at making our very own Garlic Powder. We pulled three heads of garlic, broke up their cloves and took their skins off. Then we sliced them up and put them in our dehydrator. Since we started this process at night, we…
Well, I finally sat down and wrapped my head around all of the seeds we have left over from packets purchased last year (and a few from the year before…yes…2010!), seeds we have saved from our garden and from organic veggies obtained from the grocery store or our CSA as well as the wonderful seeds that came in the mail…
The bees are cleaning house! A couple of days ago the sun was shining and it was pretty warm out (50ish is my guess), so the bees took the opportunity to clean out their dead. One by one they flew out with a dead bee in their clutches and simply dropped said bee on the ground in front of their…
We got a pressure canner!!! It wasn’t planned for, but sometimes (most of the time) it’s better that way! Since 2011 marked our first experiences with water bath canning, I’m super excited to add pressure canning to my list of things to learn more about in 2012! So far, so good! It seems easier than water bath canning, although, I…
Happy Monday & Happy 2012, everyone! This weeks harvest was the last harvest of 2011 and was a tiny one, but a harvest none-the-less 🙂 Again, we have greens! Enough greens for three good sized salads! I am especially grateful for our grow lights these days given the state of our Wagons/hoop houses. Everything is either super slow to…
