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Yesterday, my friend Heather dropped by with her two kids. Heather and her husband are in the process of building an urban chicken coop, and when she asked me last week where she could find some chickens, I offered to barter with her. I ended up trading her 3 of our chickens, for $30 in Read More >>
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Down the road from our house grows the most epic blackberry patch on the planet. And every summer around mid- August The Girl and I are down there picking big, fat, juicy blackberries about every third day or so. It’s tricky though, because technically the blackberry patch belongs to the whole neighborhood, not just us. Read More >>
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Last weekend, The Girl and I were in Poulsbo and we came across a sign for the Poulsbo Farmer’s Market. So we stopped by to check it out. We have been to several farmer’s markets this year and this was the first time we noticed raised container gardens for sale at one. These raised garden Read More >>
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First I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who weighed in last night about my tomato dilemma. I took your advise, and topped the ridiculously tall tomato plants. I didn’t want to do it, but everyone promised me my tomato plants would not only survive the cut, but grow bigger and better Read More >>
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Last week when I told you the tomatoes in my greenhouse were about 6 inches from hitting the ceiling, you chimed in and told me to trim them. But did I listen? NO. And now I’m in trouble. One of my tomato plants has fallen over, and I can’t avoid the tomato dilemma any longer. I need Read More >>
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