I had forgotten what March feels like up north until I talked with my Dad the other day. "How’s the weather?" I asked. "It’s in the 20 someth…eh, it’s cold," the hanging of his head at the end of a long Minnesota winter was audible through the phone. "Huh." I said and promptly changed the…
Besides protecting the garden from the chickens and swarms of grasshoppers and other bugs, temperature extremes have been another gardening foe to factor into the equation. Today, for instance, is forecast to be in the upper 80s while yesterday morning was just around freezing. So, in order to give our cold-hardy greens a chance at…
So I read this book recently, for which I plan to post a full review soon. The topic is seed saving and it has shown me yet another example of the destruction that is done when something fundamentally agrarian is turned industrial. And this time it’s not just a matter of comfort, but rather…
We’re home. Where the greens in the cold frame (that I accidentally left open for the chickens to eat once) are making a comeback. Where even just a couple of eggs found in the nesting box still makes me smile. Where we are sinking into daily life after an emotional few weeks. And when everything…
