Category: urban homesteading
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when keeping chickens doesn’t go as planned
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When we first got our chickens almost two years ago, we told ourselves that they were not pets, even though we were decided to name them. We planned to raise…
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winterizing the ladies
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Wow! What a crazy couple of weeks it has been! With mid-semester grading, baby preparations, winter preparations, choir rehearsals and concerts, and my best friend visiting, I feel as though…
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put up and put away
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It’s official! The canning season in this house has come to an end! My canning supplies have been crowding our kitchen for the last few weeks in hopes that a…
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garden notes :: 10.16.15
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View fullsize I said farewell to most of my garden this past weekend. We still haven’t had a hard frost in Minneapolis (however, tonight could be the night!), but the…
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garden notes :: 9.22.15
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Oh, the garden, the fall garden! It’s such a mix of abundance and overgrown craziness! Once school starts each fall, I find myself coming home and thinking “oh, yeah, I…
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from the garden, from the market, to the shelf
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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
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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
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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
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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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garden notes :: 7.28.15
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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…