So I finally have material for this blog! The bad news is that I barely have the time to write about it! For example, today I headed to work at 7:30, got home at 6, worked in the garden till 8, made and ate dinner. Now it’s 9:10 and I feel thoroughly ready for bed.
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Archive for the ‘Gardening’ Category
Home Sweet Home
Posted in Finding our place, Gardening, Homesteading on June 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My day’s fun-work…
Posted in Cooking, Food Preservation, Gardening on August 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Oh, I wish I had more pictures of my creations today.
This morning, I headed to the Farmer’s Market with my big cloth bags. I left with at least 35 lbs of veggies and fruit! My arm was about to fall off on my walk back to the car. My big splurge for the trip was [...]
What I’ve been learning and doing lately…
Posted in Food Preservation, Gardening, Homesteading on August 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
EZ and I were up near Flathead Lake a few weeks ago. While there, we bought 26 lbs of Flathead Cherries and 5 lbs of Ranier Cherries. We ate a lot of them. Gave away some. Froze 10+ lbs. The rest became my first experience in canning. Honestly, it was scarier than it was difficult. [...]
How does your teeny tiny garden grow?
Posted in Gardening, Homesteading on July 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »
So, one thing about this whole homestead plan… The reason our plans are so squishy and undefined: we know next-to-nothing about all this homesteady-type-stuff. There, I said it. I’m a little afraid I’ll be lambasted as naive or fickle or whatnot (right when somebody actually reads this stuff!), just as we’re all a little afraid to [...]
