Start your garden in February with seeds planted indoors under grow lights or outdoors in milk jug greenhouses. If you’re planning to plant a round of cool weather crops, February is a great time to start sowing your seeds. We…
Simple Soothing Salve Recipe
For all your 2000 parts. Edible. Kid Friendly. Pet friendly. My husband and a couple of my kids suffer from eczema. We use cloth diapers, wash our hands a lot, garden, care for livestock and do winter chores. Our skin…
Are Hybrid Seeds Bad?
There is a lot of confusion about the various types of seeds. Some of the terms that refer to seeds are GMO seeds, hybrid seeds, heirloom seeds, and open pollinated seeds. Most folks know that GMO seeds are bad and…
Louise Riotte’s Successful Small Food Gardens
A little under 200 pages of wisdom from the author of one of my all time favorite books, Carrots Love Tomatoes. Louise Riotte is a master of neighborly writing, as if she were answering questions over the picket fence. In…
2021 Garden Plan
I am putting our garden to bed for the winter. Clearing out the last of the squash vines and digging out the last of the sweet potatoes. I spread rabbit manure over the soil and then add a layer of…
How-to Paint an Old Barn
The barn came with the house. We are not sure how old it is. It is a nice big barn about 30x40ft. The structure and roof seem to be very sound. I love the big sliding doors. The wood siding…