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The Garden Report… Things are finally starting to pick up in the garden department… It’s been so nice around here the last few days (as opposed to the coldest April on record) that I thought it was high time to see what’s growing outside in them there food boxes of mine… The only tragic news Read More >>
This is Peter. Peter is a girl. She is an Easter Egger. I picked her because she is suppose to lay blue or green eggs or if I’m really lucky, pink eggs. And also, because quite frankly when she grows up she will be one strange looking bird. But for the time being I am Read More >>
I say tomaaato, you say tomahhto! I decided to plant some tomatoes. You know, just a few. Well 100 to be exact. These little peat pot thingamajigs are my favorite container to plant tomato seeds in. Plus they are fun to squish between your fingers. Hello little pile of peat mossy dirt. I selected 10 Read More >>
Today was the first day since I began my little adventure/wish of trying to grow 2,000lbs of garden produce that I thought I might actually be able to do this, like for real. Sure I’ve had a garden before, but were talking a few tomato, cucumber, pumpkin and maybe bean plants. Nothing like what I’ve Read More >>
Today I made the trek to Spooner Farms in search of strawberries. And came home with 4 half flats of yummy fresh, ripe berries. Then I whipped up 16 1/2 pints of strawberry jam, 8 for us and 8 to put towards the “Christmas Jams.” I like to pass out jam during the Read More >>
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