Category Archives: Farming/Gardening

This and that

  After a weekend full of hiking and trips to the playground and ice cream cones, we are launching headfirst into a busy week.  The three older kids start swim lessons, my folks come to visit, and summer is in … Continue reading

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Gratitude

  Joining Taryn of WoolyMossRoots for her Gratitude Sunday: -Very glad to have a little free time to return to blogging, and catch up on some of my favorite blogs. -And grateful to return to some much-beloved routines and habits … Continue reading

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June in the Garden

Spent a cool, cloudy morning helping volunteers harvest in the garden.  We picked 37 pounds of produce for Birch Community Services, and finished up some weeding and yard maintenance (and tended to herds of small children).  Looking forward to a … Continue reading

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Waiting for spring

It has been a while since I’ve posted.  Life is tremendously hectic (I feel like I say that too frequently).  Friends having babies, and they need meals.  Kids sick with colds that become pneumonia and bronchitis.  Hours of garden work … Continue reading

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Saturday Garden Planning

I spent a considerable amount of time in the garden this week thanks to temperatures in the high 30′s ad low 40′s.  We had planned on finishing the chicken run re-do this morning.  However, a bank of freezing fog moved … Continue reading

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Out in the Chill

Some images from the garden this week: My little garden helper.  Love spending time out in the garden early in the morning,  just me and George (and the poultry, of course). We found some gorgeous mushrooms (Turkey Tail?) growing on … Continue reading

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Late December in the garden

Our Christmas was the first spent at home in Oregon, instead of visiting Grandma and Grandpa B.  We had a peaceful and happy holiday. Since, in the past, the children and I have been in Florida for 4 to 6 … Continue reading

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Christmas Posey

Our first frost date is October 15, but we have yet to have a hard freeze this year.  Tender plants that are normally wrapped in burlap or provided with wind screens are thriving free in the mild weather. While George … Continue reading

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Low Key

Garden work for me is meditative, and therapeutic…much like knitting, actually.  Today even more so, as we spent the afternoon enjoying the early October sunshine and snuggling with our Welsh Harlequin, Bumblebee… dead-heading dahlias… picking lemony Tuscan kale for dinner… … Continue reading

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Cover Crops

This past weekend, we finally got around to planting cover crops in the front yard garden (and this coming weekend, after fencing off sections from marauding poultry, we’ll sow the backyard). These are Austrian peas.  I’m trying them for the … Continue reading

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