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Here’s what the gardens look like now in mid-August. The heat has been 102* for the last three days - I guess maybe it’s time for that mean, ol’ dry land gardener to drag out the sprinklers and soaker hoses!
We’re just been busy keeping everybody (except us) in [...]
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Vegetable tour - progess and notes
Posted in agriculture, farm as desired, farm life, frugal farming, frugal living, greenhouse, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged farm life, feed yourself!, frugal farming, greenhouse, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed on August 16, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Farnsworth, you’ve got weeds
Posted in agriculture, biodynamic farming, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, greenhouse, seed saving, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, farm life, greenhouse, seed saving, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed on July 16, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Poor Farnsworth, I know how he feels - I’ve got a bad case of weeds too! Some are by my own hand, which, when they present themselves, make the light bulb go on (sometimes.)
I won’t take the blame for these weedy garlic rows. Overwintering alliums are hard to keep weed free, since they span two [...]
This last week in the garden - vegetables
Posted in agriculture, farm as desired, farm life, greenhouse, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged farm life, greenhouse, seed saving, self-sufficiency, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed on July 5, 2008 | 10 Comments »
It’s always a struggle to get things in the gardens and greenhouse under control before we start haying. So far, we’re behind. While the guys were making noise yesterday, I snapped off all the garlic scapes for pesto, and the bolting tops on the multiplier onions, the weeds in the garlic I think I will [...]
Some gardening, finally…
Posted in agriculture, early days, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, lost skills, personal, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged early farm life, farm life, personal, seed saving, subsistence agriculture, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed on June 20, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Sometimes I forget I why I garden. When someone says to me they garden, I automatically assume that they mean vegetables. Most of the time before this latest feeding frenzy brought on by current issues that I won’t go into in this post, they would mean flowers mostly. My gardening has evolved from 2/3 vegetables, [...]
Trying not to be wasteful
Posted in agriculture, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, greenhouse, lost skills, pastured poultry, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, wildlife, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, locavore, pastured poultry, seed saving, self-sufficiency, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed on June 3, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I always feel guilty if I waste food. Whether from over planting, or being over zealous in my harvesting. I try to ask myself, “Is this better on the vine, in the ground, … , OR in the refrigerator?” The refrigerator is usually the most wasteful place for me, it costs money to run, and [...]
Meat and potatoes
Posted in agriculture, early days, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, lost skills, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, wildlife, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, early farm life, family cow, farm life, frugality, grow your own food, over-winter vegetables, seed saving, self-sufficiency, vegetable gardening on May 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
That is what our garden is - just your basic old vegetable garden. Full of workhorses and not too many gourmet delicacies. It feeds us year-round though, but you won’t find low performers in our garden more than a year, or two at most.
Before the rain on Tuesday, we planted 50# of potatoes. I plant the [...]
Cool to warm- the greenhouse
Posted in cattle, easily amused, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, seed saving, sustainability, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, seed saving, sustainability, vegetables, zero mile foodshed on May 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s that time of year when the greenhouse morphs from a safe haven for cool colors and foods to the hot vibrant colors and flavors of heat loving crops. The biggest challenge to planting for the summer, is getting the soil saturated beforehand. In my lottery dreams - I would rebuild my greenhouses and make them [...]
Matron of husbandry
Posted in farm life, food preservation, vegetables, zero mile foodshed, tagged farm life, frugal living, scratch cooking, seed saving, vegetables, zero mile foodshed on April 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
That’s me - aka “Chief cook and bottle washer.” The dictionary defines matron as one who is married, dignified, mature and in charge. Several of those terms fit me: I am married and I’m in charge. (at least that’s what I tell my husband) The other two, I’m not so sure. The dictionary defines husbandry as the art [...]
Vegetables
Posted in food preservation, greenhouse, vegetables, tagged greenhouse, seed saving, vegetable gardening on February 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
As promised here is our vegetable variety list, which includes the reasons we have chosen to grow them. The reasons can range from having a connection to who gave us the seed, to flavor, color, productivity, keeping quality or just because we like the name. By no means, what you would call scientific. I still enjoy [...]
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