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In case you couldn’t make it to New York for fashion week, here’s what I think will be hot in backyards all across America this season. Grey t-shirts. Sure they show sweat stains, but man they look nice when paired with a shovel and a set of garden gloves. Nothing says Hot Mama like a grey t-shirt. Read More >>
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Today I planted 2 packets of pansy seeds under grow lights in the office. I don’t know about you, but I LOVE pansies. Typically I plant a bunch in our front window box and near the front door in early spring and more often than not the come back up again the following year. Pretty cool Read More >>
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A few weeks ago when we received more fresh bananas than we could eat from a reclaimed food box, I decided to make a few grab and go smoothie bags for the kids. In fact anytime you have extra yogurt or fruit on hand, these DIY freezer fruit and yogurt smoothie bags are great to set aside for Read More >>
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Lemon lost a few leaves this past week so I had Monkey Boy move her to the greenhouse yesterday. I know losing a few leaves is totally normal when you transplant a tree, but after Erin showed me a picture of the lemon tree growing in her greenhouse, I decided to go ahead and move mine out Read More >>
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There was a big variety of free fresh produce for both the chickens and my family this week in the 3 reclaimed produce boxes we picked up from Mr. Produce Guy. This whole reclaimed produce thing started last April {you can read about it HERE} and after doing it for about 10 months now I Read More >>
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Frieda’s Specialty Produce Company sent me a bag of Terrific Trio new potatoes {a sampling of blue, red and yellow potatoes} to try out, and let me tell you Bob, they were good. The last time I posted a recipe for roasted potatoes a few of you suggested I use Worcestershire sauce and Dijon mustard, so I did. Holy canolies people, what Read More >>
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10 Cool Things to Do With Eggshells – With all of the effort my ladies go through to lay an egg, it feels wrong somehow not to use the whole thing. Plus, there are soooo many ways to use the shells. Even it you don’t have chickens, you can still totally use the shells from Read More >>
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Last October I planted garlic in one of our raised garden beds. Yesterday, I pulled all the chicken fencing off the straw covered bed of garlic and was happy to find oodles of tiny green shoots poking through. I had to place the fencing on the garlic bed because the chickens kept scratching around in the soil Read More >>
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