by katie | May 30, 2016 | Organic Gardening, Self sustainability
Organic Garden Maintenance If you are having a maintenance service maintain your grounds and gardens, pay attention to whether or not they are routinely using Round Up. If you have a gravel driveway and it has not been recently replaced, you are likely to be getting...
by katie | Jan 30, 2016 | Farming, Self sustainability
Navigating class K , or Rural Residential permits is a bit complicated, yet well worth it. A very well written law, Class K allows you to build using recycled, upcycled building materials and alternative methods of construction...
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 | 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 | Oct 16, 2012 | Farming, Self sustainability
It was the best of times, it is the best of times. It has been so hard to slow down enough to enjoy what we have built here. Tonight I got to put the chickens away, a job Dennis usually does. It is Indian summer here the last few days, and really hot for our north...
