F$@&ing bamboo

Two years ago Dave and another guy isolated the giant bamboo making its way into our yard from the neighbor — we call this bamboo island — but we didn’t get it all it seems. One of my raised beds is just full of the roots and shoots. I fear I am going to have [...]

A new kind of job

I quit my job last week. Pretty fantastic feeling! It was more difficult than I expected to fit 10 hours of work in a week…and not because the work is hard but because my head just isn’t in it. I want to spend my time raising Mira and operating our little homestead. I have a [...]

A big harvest

Last year we planted a bunch of carrots in May. They were ready to eat in August, and we’ve been munching on them ever since. Yum! Well, it’s close to planting time again, and as of yesterday we still had a bunch of carrots in the raised bed, still holding strong. We harvested them all [...]

A bountiful harvest

Summer is coming to a close around here, I guess you could even say it is technically fall, but in the garden I can usually squeeze a few more weeks of harvest time before the rains come. We have two really nice days forecasted and then a week of rain after that so the tomatoes [...]

Corn!

Every week we take the weekly baby bump photo out in the garden and while it shows that the garden and I are growing there isn’t a true sense of the scale of things so this week we gave the full view. I think the corn is winning.

June Garden

I heard there was a request for an updated garden photo from one of the few people I think reads our blog so I had to oblige!  The garden has been growing well with all of this rain which is the only thing that has kept me from completely freaking out about how much it [...]

Goodbye Pear Tree!

 It was a noisy and active morning here at the house.  After a summer of picking up rotting pears that were falling from our pear tree 30 feet off the ground we agreed to cut the pear tree down.  Feels very wrong in our tree-hugging way of life but it will be replaced with many [...]