The transition from spring to summer became official in the garden when, about two weeks ago now, temperatures reached triple digits more often than not. Some years are just like that – a late frost and a month later it is 100 degrees most days until September. As you can imagine, most of the spring…
We eat beans in one form or another on most days of the week. Black beans, lentils, pinto beans, red beans, garbanzo beans; you name it. I find them to be a great friend to the large family table on a budget. They are inexpensive but they can get boring or even hard to eat…
I actually had to go back and look at the date of my last post to see how old these birds are. It turns out it’s been just about a month since our last update and things have definitely changed. The first major change is that we got netting up over the whole chicken run….
I wrote this last year but wasn’t ready to hit publish… until now. Leaving certain ways of thinking, living, and doing behind since moving off-grid has in many ways freed me from constraints I never knew I had and blind spots I simply could not see. It’s easier to see the messed up when you’re…
