Our seeds are growing like mad
Once again, after starting our seeds in smaller, deep containers, covered with plastic bread wrappers, I put them in our little portable indoor greenhouse to grow in a sunny, south-facing window in the living...
Look how Will’s raised beds make a difference!
While he was here, my sweetie made us five nice raised beds in our new house garden. Into each one, he dumped at least a wheelbarrow and half of rotted manure from the donkey...
Q and A: picking green beans and feeding bad food to chickens
Picking green beans
When picking beans, do you pick them with the stem attached or with the stem removed? I know when cleaning them I take them off. I just don't want to hurt my...
Q and A: canning dried beans, planting asparagus, and dried citrus peels
Canning dried beans
It is not so easy to find cooking method to can dried beans in a pressure cooker. A good place I've found is at http://pickyourown.org/canningdriedbeans.htm but it seems it cooks the beans...
We knew rain was coming so we’ve been working extra hard
We live every day by our weather radio. We listen to it first thing every morning and the last thing in the evening. In this way, we have a pretty good handle on what...