by katie | Apr 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Why Our Food is So Dependent on...
by katie | Apr 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
There are easy vegetables out there that can supplement most people’s diet very happily with little effort. My favorites for this coastal location: 1.chard 2. Kale 3. Zucchini 4. Cherry tomatoes 5. Lettuce 6. Peas I really think the large trough planters are...
by katie | Mar 19, 2013 | Cooking, Farming, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Vegetable Gardening
I’m afraid I’m quite boring in my use of spices, although most of the spices I use come straight from the garden. My husband and kids don’t like spicy food much or strange herbs, even curries. So my standby is a good base of fresh veggies, whatever...
by katie | Feb 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Workshop: Grow Your Own Mushrooms on Logs With John Richardson This workshop will teach us which hard wood logs to select, how to prepare and inoculate them with spawn plugs, which varieties of mushrooms work best, and how to take care of the logs. Each log can...
by katie | Jan 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
How power-mad neoliberalism trashed your life, but made the super-rich even richer… In Around the web on January 16, 2013 at 7:33 am From GEORGE MONBIOT The Guardian How they must bleed for us. In 2012, the world’s 100 richest people became $241 billion richer. They...
by katie | Jan 12, 2013 | Farming, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
I love what farm life offers kids. Time to remember just how to have fun with everything. Make your own toys. Learning all kinds of body skills and capabilities in the midst of a working family.
by katie | Jan 3, 2013 | Farming, Self sustainability
Life on the farm sometimes feels like that movie “Babe”, you know where all the animals are such crazy characters ? The animals here are like that. Our horses are some of the funniest. We already had the horses when we moved here, so we tried hard to...
by katie | Jan 1, 2013 | Cooking, Farming, Self sustainability
New Years Day working in the garden. So much garden work to do at this time of the year. I’m pruning deciduous trees and shrubs, fruit trees, roses, hydrangeas, fushias. Cutting back perennials. Transplanting or planting out new plants. I have an area where I...
by katie | Dec 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Everyone should read this book to understand the demise of American agriculture, which has led to the dysfunction of our society and our health. “The Unsettling of America” by Wendell Berry Wendell Berry writes here during a rainstorm in Kentucky, watching...
by katie | Nov 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
I have the most wonderful husband, sometimes he seems like he was made to order. I think a lot of this is from being raised in the country. Having country values. You get married to someone you love and you can continue loving them your whole life. Ethics are hard...
