Tomatoes are my very favorite crop to grow. I fret over them, baby them, cheer them on, and proudly serve them to friends and family as some sort of jewel in the green. As modern homesteaders on our old farm, we grow nearly all that we eat and store lots in our freezer, root cellar,…
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Part 2: How To Grow Food to Feed You and Your Family for a Year. How Much Should You Grow?
Ooh, lots to cover here, so brew yourself a nice cuppa something and join me today while I dive into one of the most difficult topics of this entire journey: How much do you need to grow to feed you and your family for a year? This is the second installment in a series I…
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Part 1: How to Grow Food to Feed You and Your Family for a Year
Are you interested in growing enough food to feed you and your family for a year? It has been a goal of mine for years, and it is a milestone that I am excited to share with you. For me, it’s been an incremental process. I’ve been gardening for ten years now–from a couple of…
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Free Masterclass Gardening Summit: Join 11 Top Kitchen Gardeners From Across the Country
I’m absolutely thrilled to tell you about a Free Virtual Masterclass Gardening Summit bringing together some of the most amazing kitchen gardeners from around the country to teach you exactly how you can start growing more of your own food–and planning for what to do with it (that’s my topic!). It’s a diverse line-up of…
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What To Plant Now: A Sampling of Spring Seeds
I’m getting lots of messages and questions about planting and that makes me so happy—think of all the adults and kids digging their hands in dirt! And think of the truly immeasurable joy of giving and receiving a hand grown bouquet of homegrown food…It’s enough to make you cry, quite truly, during these times. So….
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Video: This Wild Life – A short story trailer for Eating Buckets
What do you wish for? What keeps you up at night? Where will your heart take you? Brian and I ask each other these questions often because it keeps us curious and alive, but we don’t often get to combine words and pictures and think about these questions the way we were able to in…
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Photo Diary: Buckets and Buckets and Buckets of Life.
Everything around us is bursting with burgeoning, blossoming, gorgeous, incredible, inspiring, life-giving, life-supporting, life-affirming, nature-built pieces of art. From the blackberry blossoms to the clusters of Italian plums to the Braeburn and heirloom and Fuji and Transparent apples and Bosc pears to the greens and peppers and tomato blossoms, to the first fire-orange nasturtiums, and…
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Buckets of wild beauty.
I have been silent over here. I know. I’ve just been posting little piddly Facebook things here and there and I have been missing my time writing in my little writing studio and connecting with all of you. I am finally back at it, but that doesn’t mean we were silent over here. We’ve had…
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Ladybug season.
It’s not ladybug season in our garden yet. But it is in our house. We have a small colony living inside a sunny south-facing wall. Little ladybugs march up the shiplap siding in our kitchen and visit with each other. It’s like a little party–a Sunday social with ladies in frilly dresses sipping tea and…
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Endorphin blast.
We woke this morning to riotous springtime birdsong and sun–precious, blessed sun–blasting through our bedroom window. Our rooster was crowing his head off, surprising even himself with his bantam lung power, I am sure. The poor girls trapped in the henhouse were pretty grumpy when the kids finally arrived to let them out. We gathered…
