In the Fall A simple task on your fall to-do list: pruning blackberries! You’ll want to prune once the blackberries are finished fruiting for the season. We usually save this task for November or early …
Planning A Garden- Simple Steps
Grow What You’ll Eat Family doesn’t like green podded peas? Don’t plant them! Be realistic in what you think you’ll eat and plant that! Love tomatoes? Go tomato crazy! We’ve definitely fallen under the spell …
Saffron 101
An easy to grow perennial flower that blooms in the fall- saffron crocus! 0.018 oz of saffron threads retails for $17.99 in our local grocery store. It makes sense that it’s the most expensive herb since …
Keeping Toddlers & Chickens- On Composting Chicken Poop
I didn’t think too much about our composting system at first when we got chickens. We had a compost heap and we’d add the chicken poop to it. Easy enough! Wrong. Let me give you …
Recipe: Persimmon Fruit Leather
Persimmon Fruit Leather
Recipe: No Can Peach Jam
If you have a picky toddler, PB&Js are probably on their list of “safe foods.” While it’s not our first choice for dinners, sometimes we don’t have any other choice. We want our kids to …