A Day’s Harvest
Seeing the pile of food ready to be carried in from harvesting what’s ripe in my garden today makes me feel happy, secure, and grateful. According to the Borgen Project, 842 million people are suffering from hunger worldwide. (https://borgenproject.org/15-world-hunger-statistics/) What my “village” (including extended family and friends) can’t use, and what we can’t find time…
Grow: greens are in the ground
Cool season greens started in our basement are now planted in the garden and mulched.
Build: bee hive complete!
I have spent three years attending every class I could find and reading every book our library had on keeping bees. The more I learned the more intimidated I was and the further away getting bees seemed. Then, a local beekeeper offered to let me tagalong as he checked his hives intern for some grunt…
Grow: starts are thriving
The greenhouse is working great. We moved the warm season crops from the basement to the greenhouse, which has a heat lamp for colder evenings. I started the first row in the garden of cool season crops under a tunnel. Everything is growing very well. Before we write an article outlining how we built the…
Create: living fence
We recently got several pine trees cut down along the edge of the garden, along the road, to increase light. I asked the crew to leave them at fence post height . I’m not totally sure what my plan is but I have planted heirloom thornless blackberries between the trees and hope to use wire…
Kitchen Update
Nate is giving our outdated kitchen a facelift. He is painting the oak cabinets and extending them to the ceiling, repainting the walls, adding in some new open floating shelves, and putting on new cabinet hardware. Next phase will also be to replace the countertops and install a new backsplash. He is doing the project…
Starting Seeds
I am notorious for starting seeds way too early and ending up with spindly plants yearning for transplanting when there is still a danger of frost. This year I forced myself to wait until mid-March, and just started about 1000 seedlings. We have converted a long counter in the basement with grow lights, as it…
Bedding down for fall
Now that it’s getting down into the 30s at night, we are preparing the gardens for winter. We planted cold season crops under our hoop house in the garden and have established plants in the greenhouse and under small hoops in the root crop bed. The rows that we won’t be planting have either been…
Alien Rock?
Look at this wild rock my mom found on her property–she has not altered it in any way! Spooky…
Greenhouse Finished!
The final few steps are complete-a last coat of paint, gutters, a rainwater collection system, and an exterior bed have been added. Fall crops are planted inside!
The Dandy Lion 