I’ve been on vacation since a week ago Friday, but didn’t plan to take a blog vacation. My plans were to spend every morning in the garden but the weather had other ideas. We’ve been alternately hot and humid and cool and humid with the ups and downs punctuated by a lot of rain. I …
Category: Food
Broody
Ethel when she isn't Broody Ethel’s biological clock has decided to tell her she needs to stop laying eggs and hatch some instead. So she’s gone broody. It doesn’t matter that we have no rooster and the eggs will never hatch, her hormones win out. First she sat on her egg, but we took it …
Green Plants and Green Houses
I subscribe to a couple newsletters about foraging, and one, from a local person who teaches classes that I aspire to attending one day, had a blog post in her newsletter about spring greens to forage. Most of them I already knew about, but then she mentions sochan. What the heck it that? And I …
So Much
The crocus survived and is flowering! From Sunday through Tuesday last week we ended up getting a foot of snow! We had a break from the snow Monday during which we got an inch of rain. While the snow was not appreciated, the moisture was. There was so much that we went from being in …
No Fear Gardening
Hello friends! Took last weekend off from writing because I didn’t have anything much to say. I still don’t, but here I am anyway. So this could be short and sweet or long and rambling about everything and nothing in particular. Seed Starting station The indoor seed starting is going pretty well. I made the …