Happy Monday everyone! Well, I finally surrendered to the removal of all our over-wintered greens in an effort to (hopefully) fully thwart the leaf miners that refuse to give up their happy homes. I pulled what remained of the spinach and chard and left the only beet and kale plants…
I know I’ve mentioned before that Tool Lady and I work for the same non-profit and that I manage the after school and summer camp program for girls age 5-15…but what I don’t think I’ve mentioned is how much time and energy it takes to keep things going intentionally and…
Well, after last weekends post about our broody hen we decided to put Blondie in solitary confinement for a couple of days. We decided to use our brooder (Version #2) and put it in the garage where the temperature this time of year is still pretty cool. (We’ve had a couple of laughs…
I tried my first braided (circle) bread a couple of weeks ago and, as simple as it looked, I really struggled with it at first! So, while baking some more bread last weekend I decided that maybe a photo tutorial might help someone else who has either thought about braiding…
Alright, so maybe growing watermelon in the high desert isn’t the best idea, but they’re so incredibly good! There really is no proper substitute on a hot summer day! We’ve tried to grow watermelon a couple of times with no luck. I think it might have been a mixture of…
Happy Monday everyone! Not a ton to report today in the way of actual harvests as we’re nearing the end of our greens and there’s a bit of a break between them and my spring plantings. I still haven’t mastered this whole succession planting schedule but there is a lot…
We have never before had so much green happening in our yard at this time of year! I think part of the reason is our exceptionally warm winter and spring and part of it is all the seed starting we did this spring under our grow lights. It is very…
Whelp…we have our first broody hen. This is Blondie (called that because of all her yellow coloring…all our other Ameracaunas have a rustier coloring to their feathers) and she’s officially gone broody over the past week. Being that she’s a little over a year old and it’s spring, I guess…