When you think about it, the shift from winter to spring is a pretty incredible one. No mater how much you know about plants and what's going on within them, how all their processes work, and their chemistry, it feels miraculous to watch them unfold from snowy ground and bare twigs. There are so many lessons here that we can take away from observing this shift in the seasons, but one of the most ...
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Pumpkin Perfect
Wishing you and all your pumpkins a Happy Halloween! ...
Sweet Annie
Sweet Annie (Artemisia annua), otherwise known as sweet sagewort, sweet woodworm, annual mugwort, annual wormwood, and Chinese wormwood, is a deliciously fragrant dried flower you should know about. It is most commonly used in dried flower arrangements and wreaths, but also has some medicinal uses due to high levels of antioxidants and flavonoids. I had experience making decorated bird houses in ...
Knowing Beans
"I was determined to know beans." ~Henry David Thoreau ...
Keep Your Face to the Sunshine
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.” ~Helen Keller ...
A Flower’s Roots
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. D. H. Lawrence Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/flower_3.html "The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure." ~D.H. Lawrence The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. D. H. Lawrence Read more at: ...
The Garden is Planted!
The Garden is planted, let the growing begin! (More soon, it is a busy time on the homestead.) ...
Potato Cages
When it comes to food, we are often encouraged to try something new. I like to apply the same idea to growing food. It's all food related, right? One of my favorite parts of gardening is trying out new ways to grow things and improving my skills as I go along. I got the nifty idea to build some potato cages this week because we are almost out of storage potatoes and the garden is nowhere near ...
A Plethora of Pumpkins
When we went out to do a little work in the garden this weekend, we found quite a surprise hiding under the pumpkin vines and nasturtiums. Not only were the pumpkins ripe early, there were a lot more of them than we were expecting! The Magic Lantern, Goosebumps, Cinderella and Small Sugar pumpkins we sowed in the spring had become such a jungle that we weren't really sure what was going on in ...
Banjo Pickin’ in the Garden
My newest needlefelted wall hanging is a celebration of growing food, working hard, pickin' an old-time tune, and enjoying the simple things in life. In the heat of the afternoon, it's time to sit back in the shade of the pear tree for some banjo pickin'. The vegetables ripen in the field, the chickens scratch away in the orchard, and some fine old-time music floats on the breeze. It's a ...