Keeping Up with Your Garden on a Real-Life Schedule
Ah, summertime, when all the literal fruits of your gardening efforts come to maturity. When your plants are bursting with bumper crops of zucchini, yellow squash, and tomatoes. When you’re up to your...
View ArticleTop Preservation Picks for 2014
I’m not really into zombie-apocalypse style survival preparation. But I am into saving as much of our own food as possible for the winter. Why? It saves us on grocery bills through winter. A LOT. It’s...
View ArticleChickens, Gardens, & The Circle of Life
Have you ever wondered how chickens and gardens can help each other out? If you’re a seasoned chicken keeper, I’m sure you already know. If you’re not, now you can learn how chickens and gardens join...
View Article16 Reasons to Grow (At Least Some of) Your Own Food
As a follow up to a couple of recent posts (namely, Can Organics Feed the World? and 30 Reasons to Own Chickens), I want to give you some reasons (in no particular order) why you should consider...
View ArticleGood Pickins # 19 (Seed & Garden Edition)
It’s the most wonderful time of the year- almost springtime! We still haven’t officially planned out our garden, but by golly, we had better do it soon. We have a lot of saved seeds from last year, but...
View ArticleLow Tunnel Log Planters
My hubby recently came up with an idea combining a traditional low-tunnel with loose hugelkultur principles: a low tunnel log planter. I waited a couple of weeks to post this on the blog, because it...
View ArticleThe Art of Gardening (Book Review)
Susan Vinskofski, author and gardening genius behind the blog Learning and Yearning, generously gave me a free copy of her ebook, The Art of Gardening, in exchange for my honest review. I liked the...
View ArticleHerbal Teas to Grow or Forage Yourself
Most of us are familiar with vegetable gardens and herb gardens- but what about your own tea garden? (Catnip tea brewing in our Tea Posy pot.) I love a good black tea in the afternoon, but herbal teas...
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