It has been my tradition that sometime Valentines week, I get to start something I love: gardening for the new year.
A LITTLE LAND – A LOT OF LIVING. Backyard homesteading and preparedness.
It has been my tradition that sometime Valentines week, I get to start something I love: gardening for the new year.
I guess you have seen me, while passing by, so I will admit the obvious: sometimes I cheat. Well, only in a technical term- but not in my heart, which is where it counts.
Having the homestead spirit as I do, my desire is to have food growing as long as possible. There is still time to get two more rounds of gardening in: a late summer and fall garden.
As I write, we have first gotten a red tomato! The climate has been weird here. Makes for nice green grass in July, but it hasn't been the best mater year. Either it is too hot and dry or it comes down in torrential downpours, splitting all the tomatoes.
Dear Neighbor, In the summer of 1999, we had so many jalapenos, I filled as many jars as I could and then took a grocery bag with the rest of them to the local Mexican store. Since our pig wouldn’t want them, I had to just give them away. As I walked into the store…
Dear Neighbor, Stop giving away all your extra zucchini! Robert from www.suburbhomestead.wordpress.com has a recipe that will give your zucchini a whole new flavor.
Dear Neighbor, When I think of preparedness, I think of homesteading and self- sustainable living, as well. To me, they go hand in hand. Of course, one can purchase all their preparedness items. However, if you are moved by your homesteading spirit and you want to grow some of your own food, there are two…
When rating preparedness necessities, water hits the top of the list. This is why we start our rotating, Daily Tasks with Storing Water. To be truly prepared, you need to know how to store and treat water.
Dear Neighbor, Toads get a really bad rap. They are made fun of and superstiously avoided. Do people really believe they can get warts from a toad? Come on! The next time you see a toad, you might want to kiss him because underneath that warty exterior is the prince of pest control. Toads are…
Dear Neighbor, The movie Food, Inc. still haunts me. Frankly, it isn’t that I didn’t know a lot of what the movie talked about, but what I didn’t know makes me sick to my stomach. I am not going to say that bad food will necessarily kill us… that would be the easy way out. What bad…