Planning for…. the fall garden. We ordered just a few seed packets after taking inventory. We’ll be starting flats of greens and herbs, working beds for root vegetables, and trying to focus on really improving a few spaces. Finally realizing… that maybe we’ve stretched it all too thin. Our two major garden spaces are both…
I’ve received quite a few books over the past few months on the various topics that interest me – mostly sustainability, gardening, and cooking. This is where I share some of the highlights from that bookshelf. And, if you haven’t read The Nourishing Homestead or the review we posted with author Ben Hewitt, I highly…
Every growing year has started out the same for us here on the homestead – we plant perennials. Much of these have been fruit and nut trees and bushes while others have served other functions, like bamboo around the pond or nitrogen-fixing bushes on the front side of swales. Every year we plant a little…
