Eighth of an Acre Bounty

We finally had a bit of a sunny day yesterday, allowing me to tromp around and get pictures of all the promise out there. The ground is still completely soggy, so not a lot of cultivating I can do until we get a few sunny days in a row to dry things out a bit. […]

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So this is the post where I expose my ignorance. My plant identification skills suck for the most part. This little green thing above showed up last year in what was originally to be our strawberry bed (poor siting and the strawberries, erm… failed to thrive?). I have no idea what this is and am […]

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Novella, over at Ghost Town Farm, posted the other week offering up seeds she had saved from her largest Triamble winter squash. I excitedly took her up on her offer and received an envelope in the mail not too long after with several beautiful seeds. I’m thrilled to have a new variety to try this […]

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Happy first day of spring! I sit here this morning silently hoping that the rain doesn’t start up again so I can celebrate by putting my Pac Choi, leek and Cabbage seedlings in the ground. I can already feel the warmth converging a bit. We haven’t had a 30 some degree day in over a […]

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Strangely I haven’t been able to come up with a single thing to write about this week. Not that there aren’t things going on – I just lack inspiration. Here is hoping the weekend brings some new projects or ideas to blather on about. In the interim, consider this Turn off the television, radio, lights, […]

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This week brings us to the end of the Dark Days challenge. Time to look ahead to the crisp greens of spring and the tang of a summer tomato dribbling down your chin. Participating in the weekly write up this year has been a good exercise for me. We prepared well last summer and didn’t […]

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Despite the snow/rain/snow/hail/freezing temperature merry-go-round we’ve been on lateley there are still signs of life in the garden. The cold frames I built last month are serving the little seedlings well, protecting them from the below freezing temperatures we’ve had. The pic above is one of the cold frames that I planted first. This box […]

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AKA the great offal experiment. As I’ve mentioned before, we ordered half a pig from a local farm a mere 15 minutes from our house this year. In the course of making the cut arrangements with the farm I inquired about the offal. You see, I am a bit preoccupied with using everything. Especially when […]

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This past week has been pretty busy. So busy that I never got to read the book I was supposed to by this afternoon, I haven’t kept up at all with posting this week and here we are staring down a rapidly approaching Monday. Saturday was another busy day, full of meat grinding and mixing […]

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