Category: homesteading
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when life is too busy to pick the beans…
…the beans get really big. It’s been a week of really big beans around here. With a busy holiday weekend spent with the best of friends and the start of…
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from the garden, from the market, to the shelf
My days over the past few weeks (when not traveling, that is) have been filled with food preservation. The shelves are slowly, but steadily filling with jars of tomatoes, corn,…
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basil pesto
Herbs have been making their way into the kitchen in fistfuls and basketfuls over the past several weeks. My first batch of oregano has been dried, crushed, and stored away…
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garden notes :: 8.12.15
Wow! Has it really been a week since I posted last?? Yikes! The time has flown. We spent last Thursday-Sunday at a music festival in Appleton, Wisconsin called Mile of…
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the chicken and the egg
Until I had chickens I really had no idea how valuable those eggs at the grocery store really are. It seems so simple, right?? You have a few chickens, they…
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fermented cucumbers and jalapeños
You know that team building game that people sometimes play where you have to choose what two foods you would want to live on for the rest of your life…
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garden notes :: 7.28.15
The heat of summer is definitely here!!! The tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and tomatillo are loving it, while the beans and cucumbers are tolerating it and wishing that I’d water them…
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garden notes :: 7.10.15
The garden is thriving!!! Such a wonderful thing to come home two after two weeks away during our prime growing season! The tomatoes grew a couple feet while we were…
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garden notes :: 6.23.15
I love how much the garden can change in just two weeks, especially in the month of June! We’ve had perfect garden weather with days and nights of long steady…
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free-range…for a few minutes
As I’ve mentioned before, this summer we are doing things a bit differently with the chickens when it comes to their time free-ranging in the yard. In a perfect urban…