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CookingGardening

Sunday dinner

There is a steep learning curve to growing your own food when you don't come a gardening or farming family. I wanted to grow some…
Lisa
August 5, 2013
Gardening

Mulched

The driveway flower bed with three river birches, daylilies, irises, gerber daisies, pentas and dahlias. The left sided back door yard daylily bed with echinacaea…
Lisa
August 2, 2013
GardeningHomemaking

Weeded

I spent yesterday morning weeding out this bed beside the driveway. Today I ordered fresh pine straw for mulching. I need to weed along the…
Lisa
July 30, 2013
GardeningHomemaking

Garden plans

An inaugural year but not enough to yet designate me a gardener. I planted a garden. Initially I planted seeds. I was ambitious or rather,…
Lisa
July 28, 2013
Gardening

Blueberries 2.0

I bought eight new blueberry shrubs at the farmers' market yesterday. At $5 a piece, it was a great deal. I have spent the morning…
Lisa
July 14, 2013
CookingGardeningHomemaking

I woke before the sun and set coffee to brew and then headed to the southern property line just as the sun crested the distant…
Lisa
June 15, 2013
GardeningHomemaking

I recently read an article on Grist about women farmers and ranchers. I'm not a farmer but I want to grow some of my own…
Lisa
June 8, 2013
CookingGardening

Totally Homemade

I picked the first growth of our cucumbers, grown from seeds for Ellen's Family white pickling cucumbers. The cucumbers look like yellow squash but smelled…
Lisa
June 2, 2013