We have water!

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When you live off grid, you need to learn to color outside the lines. Our water lines, both from our new well at the...

Our first peppers are doing really well

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After less than a week, the first hot peppers are popping up. First you see their "backs," the curved part of the stem that...

Q and A: pickling solution, melted plastic in the garden, and preserving grapes

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Pickling solution I've been canning a lot of pickle goods, Sw. Relish, Garlic Dills, Sw. Pickle Chips, etc. I have a lot of Sw. Pickling...

The sun’s out and it’s thawing today

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For the first time, we're seeing snow melting. There are big puddles on the roads and parking lots in town. How exciting! It fired...

Eating up all the garden mistakes

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This last few days have been sort of a blur of frenzied picking, hauling, digging, hauling and stacking garden produce in the new greenhouse,...