by katie | Feb 17, 2011 | Farming, Fine Gardening, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Vegetable Gardening
As a girl growing up with my two brothers and my dad, I learned to tow and launch a boat before I got my license. I rode a motorcycle, four wheeled, and learned to drive out of a skid on a wet curve before I was 16. My brother was determined to raise me as a strong...
by katie | Feb 14, 2011 | Annuals, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Vegetable Gardening
It’s interesting to me to look introspectively inside at what issues are holding you back from accomplishing your goals. Insecurity, lack of confidence, fear??? How do you come to terms with these? How do you move forward? Are you happy? Can you be? There are...
by katie | Feb 4, 2011 | Farming, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Vegetable Gardening
My youngest daughter whose four and a half, eats her veggies. Usually before anything else. We have to make her eat the other things on the plate. ” No More Salad! till you take a bite of meat” ” You can’t just eat the swiss chard ”...
by katie | Jan 30, 2011 | Farming, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Pruning, Self sustainability, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
After coming back from Filigreen Farms I decided we needed to turn our whole upper garden into espallier fruit trees. We planned to turn it into gardens anyway but now hopefully it will be a longer lived planting and easier for us to maintain as we get older than...
by katie | Jan 30, 2011 | Cooking, Farming, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Perennials, Pruning, Self sustainability, Shrubs, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
Well I went with more friends to the second lesson on biodynamic orchard practices and pruning. This day started at The Apple Farm http://www.philoapplefarm.com/ with Tim Bates telling us about the most beautiful compost and how the innoculents work. Luke Frey...
by katie | Jan 12, 2011 | Farming, Fine Gardening, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Pruning, Self sustainability, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
Well, don’t let me read anything or learn anything. After the tree pruning workshop I realized my trees were too close together. Soooo Really though it was the trees we were going to move to open up the garden and connect the two areas together. Don’t they...
