We create our own compost every year for our garden. We also collect horse manure by the pickup truck load from neighbors and let it age for months before use in our garden beds. Our garden soil looks great and we usually grow nice healthy plants, but we thought we could do better. I ran […]
New Amendments To Our Garden Soil – DIY Complete Organic Fertilizer Read More »
Our Pur water filter that was attached to our kitchen faucet broke after about 8 years of use. After some research we decided to build our own Berkey water filter. Each Black Berkey filter is rated for 3000 gallons. We used two filters in our DIY setup for a total of 6000 gallons of filter
We are getting new bees in May after our disastrous first attempt a few years ago. We are putting a fresh coat of paint on a langstroth hive to house them in rather than putting them in our old top bar hive. Sarah wanted a soft yellow color.
We bought 12 new trees in March and have them all planted out in a clearing we made leading towards the back of the property. We planted three each of pecan, peach, fig, and plum. morning sun doesn’t quite make it until later. We painted signs for each tree.
We love to eat BLT sandwiches and have been looking for a good plant based alternative to bacon. Here is our current favorite made from eggplant. The finished bacon freezes well although it will lose its crispiness when thawed. We refer to these as “Baconplants”. Eggplant Bacon Recipe 1 medium eggplant 2 Tbs. olive oil
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We planted seeds indoors for broccoli, brussels sprouts, red cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, and pink celery. We are trying new pots – they are designed for growing orchids, I think – they are 3″ black plastic with open slats throughout the design. The idea here is that the seedlings will “air prune” themselves and resist becoming
A friend of ours gave us buckets full of red grapes. We had wanted to make wine from our own grapes, but we didn’t have a large enough harvest this year. We had already done some reading on the subject and purchased most of the equipment needed. We had never talked to him about winemaking,
A fox attacked one of our hens and this is what we found. The hen survived. Our dog took off after fox, but it got away. It happened again a couple days later with the same outcome. The chickens are locked up in their run for a bit. Hopefully the fox will look for easier
We use our 4 wheel drive truck for hauling manure from a neighbors horse stables, picking up mulch from the local sawmill, hauling building supplies, pulling out tree stumps, and getting wood from the back of the property to the front where we currently live. We don’t really use it a lot, but when we
You’ve probably heard the quote “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” from Hippocrates over 2300 years ago. This book is the modern scientific embodiment of that statement. When it comes to your health this is probably the most important book I’ve read to date and would recommend it to anyone. It