Can you believe my lettuce in my Windowsill Greenhouse! What I learned from this Planted Burpee Organic seeds in late January. Posted it. Buying Organic Seeds Remember,…..Seeds came up quickly, but became leggy. Solutions: Need more light. Added organic fertilizer: Ground up chicken poop the label says! If I had read the label to know this…
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“Buy Local” so the locals stay in business.
Wheat a hearty staple can be grown in the garden and ground for flour I just came back from the mailbox and joyfully sat down with a cup of coffee and my Mother Earth News Magazine. In other words, as you can imagine, I was in heaven. As I turned each page, I made mental…
"Buy Local" so the locals stay in business.
Wheat a hearty staple can be grown in the garden and ground for flour I just came back from the mailbox and joyfully sat down with a cup of coffee and my Mother Earth News Magazine. In other words, as you can imagine, I was in heaven. As I turned each page, I made mental…
No Eggs? What’s the Problem Girls?
A beautiful sight but my hens aren’t laying. There is nothing more fun to most kids and that includes me as a youngster, than to gather the eggs from the nest in the hen house.Sometimes the hens are on the nest and startle us when we try to take the eggs and they peck our…
Buying Organic Seeds
Have seeds! Will plant them. A few days back, single digit temperatures, nine-degrees to be exact fell upon Brown County, Ohio. I was shopping at Wal-Mart for paint for the bathroom when unexpectedly I saw gardening stuff. My cart, as if it had a mind of its own, made an abrupt left. I was in…
Harvesting in January? What is Kale?
This kale has been growing non-stop since 2012. Thanks Jennifer for sharing the recipe found for Kale. I have Kale growing in the garden and it is January! I know, your thinking, that cannot be, but it is so. I didn’t plant it, all I can figure is it was in the spring mix…
Happy, Happy New Year
From Jeff”s Camera :Our Little flock of Chickens 2013 buy more chicks for eggs and meat Hallelujah! We made it to 2013. The world didn’t end, I was sure it wouldn’t. We are still alive and breathing. Wonderful. Now what are your plans for the new year? Haven’t thought about it? Let me share a little…
Lessons From My Farm Garden
I hurried out this morning to do my mail box walk with my Corgis but found it was chilly and I needed to get a sweat shirt. Fall has arrived. When I returned I thought, Oh I need to get the tomatoes from the garden. Usually I have lots of tomatoes but this year, not…
A little bit of heaven!
Today, I’ve been bush hogging around the pumpkin and corn patch on our farm, a task that is way over due but we were busy with haying. The wind on my face is warm and dry today; arrid. I notice the leaves have started changing. The pumpkin vines are beginning to die down revealing more…
Pumpkin Bread Made With Farm Fresh Pumpkins
Who needs toys! Avah loved this. Farm House Recipes Cherry Ridge Farms Pumpkin Bread Sherry Phillips Mitchell After gathering a pickup truckload of pumpkins from the pumpkin patch with our granddaughter Avah, we wondered what else we could do besides setting some out for decorations? How about making pumpkin bread! To make processing the pumpkins…
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