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Forming a Food Community
Friday, September 23, 2016
It's all well and good to talk about eating good foods, right? We also need to do something about it. We need to actually start eating those good foods.
A Walk in the Garden
Monday, May 16, 2016
The other night, we made our way out to the garden. It had been a couple of days since I'd paid any attention to the garden because of a foot injury. (I fell and busted my toe. I told my friend she needs to put "Farm Life is Dangerous" on a t-shirt.) We've had some rain, and some hot weather, so the conditions have been just right for growing food. It's time to start eating!
Dune Fencing
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Our first year with free range chickens and a fall garden wound up being a year without any fall produce. So the following spring, we found a cheap and quick way to keep the chickens out for the year.
Burying the Weeds
Monday, December 7, 2015
So weeds defeat me. I can't garden organically without doing something about the weeds. It's always been a bit of a stretch for Jeremy to garden without spraying. Now he's growing lots of things organically with the Aquaponics farm our family is building. We've tried methods here, but only ever half-heartedly. Mostly because I always find some newfangled idea that I get all excited about and that requires him to find a dump truck load of free wood chips. (Which he did do for me, but we really needed two.)
Digging up Treasure
Friday, July 10, 2015
The busyness of summer has taken a toll on our house and our garden, but we're getting caught up again. We spent a couple of weeks sick with a summer cold, and that turned into an ear infection for the baby. When we finally got that bug out of the house, we were left with a house that looked like a tornado had gone through, with clean clothes and dirty clothes in piles all over the place. So we washed everything again and got the laundry caught up. Then we got the house clean and back in order. Just in time for Eowyn's birthday celebrations and a visit from Jeremy's parents. This week things are back in order in the house, so we've been heading outside to get the garden back in order.
Squash & Zucchini (& a Harvest Recipes Link up!)
Monday, June 22, 2015
I don't really know what I do to my squash and zucchini plants, it's just one of those things that apparently grow well under a black thumb. Or maybe the Lord loves growing it so much He just blesses us with extra. (Since I can't grow very much else well.) I really should pay more attention to them, actually. But I get a big harvest, and by the time the bugs start killing them off, I'm somewhat relieved. We all are, actually, we've been eating squash and zucchini almost every day for a month now.
Around the Farm ~ Spring
Sunday, April 12, 2015
I took a week off after Easter. I wish I could say I did something huge, but I didn't. I just rested. Read a book. And slept quite a bit. So, I figured I'd start back with a little up-date with the happenings around the farm yard! (And by the way, doesn't our front yard look like the perfect place for a milk cow? We'll have goat milk, I know, but...BUTTER. Not anytime soon, one day, I'd really like to make some of my own butter.)
Inexpensive Garden Fence
Monday, March 23, 2015
One of the things I needed to do for my garden's potential success was to put a fence around it before the chickens ate all of my new plants up. (They've done it before, dadgum chickens.) We had several t-posts laying around, so I decided to get my fence started. I didn't want to ask Jeremy to do one more thing for me since he's already done a lot here lately. I figured Gideon and I could figure this out.
Greenhouse Plants
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Oh boy, have we had a week. The kind of week where at the end of it, I have a mountain of clean laundry piled up on a chair, getting all kinds of wrinkles. But it's clean. There's still another mountain of laundry scattered throughout the house that is dirty. And today, I should be taking a nap, but you know how there are some days when naps work, and some days when naps just don't? Today's one of those days when a nap just isn't working. And it's only making me grumpy the longer I try.
So I give up trying to take a nap! I'll write instead, and maybe I'll be able to go to bed early tonight.
So I give up trying to take a nap! I'll write instead, and maybe I'll be able to go to bed early tonight.
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