urban farming/homesteading

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Honey Lemon Apple Jam

Honey Lemon Apple Jam

With our warm spring and zero late frosts, our fruit trees are doing wonderfully this year!  Despite the cherry fiasco, we are anticipating a hefty harvest of apples, apricots and pears this summer and fall...well, as hefty as one might expect from a couple of young trees ;-)We noticed a little while ago that our apples were looking a little…
June 24, 2012
The Flowering Carrot

The Flowering Carrot

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.~Phyllis TherouxWishing you all a lovely weekend full of creation!
June 22, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!Well, the past week has been full of tomatoes! 18 to be exact!  17 of those were Yellow Taxis and 1 was a Cherokee Purple...an itty bitty Cherokee Purple.  While it was quite a pain to carry all those tomato starts in and out of the house for a couple of weeks in April and May, getting a…
June 18, 2012
Cabbage Destruction

Cabbage Destruction

This is the first year we're attempting to grow cabbage.  It all started out great and full of hope.  Then, the cabbage worms struck.  We started picking them off one by one...which was nearly impossible, but worked...mostly...though not before many, many holes were chewed.It seems that the worms are gone now, but in their place are these itty bitty black…
June 15, 2012
Harvesting Turnip Seeds

Harvesting Turnip Seeds

This is me, in all my gardening glory (hmmm...) holding up the biggest turnip-gone-to-seed-space-hog ever!  Never did I think that one turnip would get so incredibly big!  Well, not the actual turnip, but all the foliage that went along with it!Of all the seeds we're attempting to save this year from over-wintered veggies (turnips, beets, carrots, kale and radishes), the…
June 13, 2012
Bean TeePee – Supersized

Bean TeePee – Supersized

Last weekend we strung some rope from our two raised beds at the end of our porch up through the slats in our portal (about 10-12 feet high) in an effort to give our Trail of Tears Beans something to hold on to.I am really happy with the way it looks now and can't wait for the beans to grab…
June 12, 2012