by katie | Aug 17, 2011 | Baking, Cooking, Farming, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Vegetable Gardening
So five years into building our farm and working outside to afford our farm. Plus living a self sufficient life, living off grid while doing this. Growing the majority of our food year round . Wildcrafting for local fruit; blackberries, huckleberries made into jams...
by katie | Aug 16, 2011 | Cooking, Farming, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability
This morning my young daughter told me the Kiwi smelled like compost . Not garbage, or just stinky- but like compost. That’s how we are changing the world, through living the sustainability concept and the kids ” getting ” it ! Although my husband...
by katie | Aug 8, 2011 | Annuals, Baking, Cooking, Farming, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Vegetable Gardening
I know I’ve written very little the last few months. Part of it is that I’m sleeping again, so no more 2am-4am writing times. The other part is this farm vision is taking effect before my eyes and it’s just so much work. Today my husband and son-in...
by katie | Jul 23, 2011 | Annuals, Baking, Cooking, Farming, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Perennials, Self sustainability
There was a gypsy evening of storytelling and music, at a self sufficiency event I wanted to attend . I thought about a story I might tell. I didn’t end up going to the event as I did last year, since we are already living the self sufficient life ! We are so...
by katie | Jun 5, 2011 | Annuals, Baking, Cooking, Farming, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Perennials, Pruning, Self sustainability, Shrubs, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
Last night eating a particularly wonderful fish chowder, fish caught by my daughter’s boyfriend, potatoes gently dug from under the plants, fresh purple onions, green garlic, parsnips (some of many currently), chopped parsley and fresh thyme. Then accompanied by...
by katie | May 18, 2011 | Cooking, Farming, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Vegetable Gardening
I planted purple onions together in groups of three or four small seedlings. I often do this and harvest them as scallions for salads. But this year I never got around to harvesting them and they developed into these cute mini purple onions. Yum, they are going into...
