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...
by katie | May 10, 2011 | Baking, Cooking, Farming, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
As this year shapes up for us, we are finding ourselves working hard to finish infrastructure development and to do it with a cash flow problem. TRADE has become our middle name, maybe our surname . We are trading for carpentry help to install our outdoor kitchen. So...
by katie | May 7, 2011 | Farming, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability
Our horses Belle and Buttercup Happy Chickens!
by katie | Apr 26, 2011 | Farming, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability
I know this seems harsh, but here in the self sufficiency reality, we need wood, we have trees. This redwood tree is approx. 40″ in diameter and 150 years old. It was growing in a thicket of thin fir trees off by itself. There are many other clumps of large...
by katie | Apr 14, 2011 | Farming, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Vegetable Gardening
I can’t help but notice the more we try to build our farm, how very multifaceted one needs to be to live a farm life. Our society has tried to encourage specialization in the last fifty years and made it seem more attractive and intelligent to be that way. Has...
by katie | Mar 29, 2011 | Farming, Fine Gardening, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability
My husband accused me of being a city girl the other day, which I found very disconcerting. When I told my kids this they commented; ” but you never even wear clean clothes to town, you always have dirty knees and your muddy boots on, how could you possibly be...
