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Gardening/Healthy Living
Farm kids
Pantry pictures
A few of you asked to see our pantry after all the canning. My kitchen is not especially huge, but I’m lucky to have a really nice-sized pantry. The space is triangle-shaped, with two sides of the triangle taken up with deep shelving and the third side of the triangle being double doors for...
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How to: Freezing corn
This week we have devoted a few hours to freezing some of our abundant corn crop. It’s a fairly simple project, but after three people in two days asked me how we do this, I thought it might be worth offering a brief tutorial here. Start by husking the corn and removing all the...
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It must be August
This past week I have been sucked into the garden/canning vortex. We’ve been given free picking rights to a friend’s apricot and plum trees. Plus the garden is exploding: cukes, peppers, zucchini, corn, and the beginnings of the tomato crop. Saturday yielded a couple dozen each of cucumbers, corn, and tomatoes, enough to overload...
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Garden lunch
We’ve been eating chard out of the greenhouse for awhile, but today I picked our first 2 zucchini, along with a handful of snow peas, which we enjoyed in a yummy stirfry for lunch. Yeah!! Summertime, here we come!
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New babies at the Owlhaven!
Aren’t they cute????? You can click on the links to enlarge each picture– and if you’d like to see my 4yo’s whole face! Technorati Tags: chickens
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Starting seeds for the garden
My adorable hubby is sharing seed starting secrets over on his blog for anyone who’s interested.
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What is a garden worth?
As we gear up for the start of gardening season, I was interested in the following post at kitchengardeners.org. In it they detailed the amount of financial savings from a 1600 square foot garden. What about you? Gonna have a garden this year? Tell me about it below. You might also enjoy checking out...
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It must be fall
(My husband has the week off, and I am making the most of it by working hard on my latest writing project. Here for you is something I wrote around this time last year.) ———– The woodpile is heaped tall and wide and deep, and covered with a brand new tarp. The stove pipe...
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