It has been rather dry here. I think it has rained once in the past two weeks. Needless to say, we have been watering our square foot garden. My older two girls like this chore, so long as they can wear those old hats. They usually get wet, on purpose, and the plants get a [...]
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little hands, big help
Posted in garden, kids on July 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Gardening Time
Posted in CSA report, garden, tagged CSA, gardening, square foot garden on March 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Almost.
The next couple days are supposed to get warmer and warmer, topping up in the 60’s! Mind you, I am not under the impression it will stay that way. I can think of at least two years in the past that we had snow on the ground in April. My mind can’t help but drift [...]
CSA (oops)
Posted in CSA report, challenge, garden, tagged budget, CSA report, groceries on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the last two weeks I have not posted a CSA report. I am so sorry and am not sure where my head is. Well, I do, my FIL is in his last days and fielding questions from the girls is nearly a full time job. Death is so hard, even when you are “prepared” [...]
lacto-fermented salsa
Posted in food, garden, herbs, recipe, tagged CSA, lacto-fermentation, organic produce, preserving, salsa on August 3, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I have never “canned” in the traditional sense of canning. No steam bathing, no wax, no pressure cooking (I once had a bad experience with a pressure cooker…they scare me.) To preserve things around here we lacto-ferment. It sounds funny, but it is easy to do and a good way to not only preserve it [...]
gardening
Posted in garden on June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I actually have no clue if I garden in a traditional way or not, but I do garden and that has to count for something. No chemicals and composting our food and yard waste seems like it should count as well.
I tried gardening when we first bought our little house. I hated it. Who could [...]
