After an unmercifully hot summer, fall has finally arrived! Hooray!! It is such a relief and also a bit surprising because we should be having our first frost right about now yet so far there is no sign of it. Sure, the mornings are chilly but the daytime highs are still in the 70s and …
Continue reading Adventures in Gardening: A Warm Welcome & A Fond Farewell
You know that saying "all good things come to an end" and it's true. We're close to harvesting everything that's left now and I can't say I'll miss this gardening season because it was pretty rough! Summer has been hard on everyone. My poor duckies had to be moved into the chicken coop because it's …
Well we definitely won't go hungry, at least not for awhile. Today I'm making a delicious soup for my lunch with some grass fed beef, homegrown potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic and fresh herbs... Yum! Unlike my chickens who are just starving to death every morning (according to them). Poor things... This one couldn't wait and …
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do. Helen Keller The more I grow them, the more sunflowers have become my favorites in the garden. There's just something so homey (or homesteady?) about them. You rarely see paintings or pictures of farms without at least one or …
This has been a frustrating year for many of us and my garden is no exception. The heat has taken its toll and some things may not have time to recover in order to reach their full potential before harvest time. Everything in the shade did fantastic, including the flowers... But most of the wildflowers …
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