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
Sarah went hiking on the Appalachian Trail this June for about 2 1/2 weeks. She started on the approach trail to Springer Mountain, GA and ended her hike at the Nantahala Outdoor Center near Bryson City, NC. She hiked over 140 miles by herself…in heavily forested mountains…thick with black bears. She said it was an
This years garden is in full swing and I am harvesting fruits and vegetables everyday. View from the top of the garden looking down. View from the bottom of the garden looking up.
We had been brewing compost tea in 5 gallon buckets and it was a bit of a chore. We set up a 55 gallon plastic drum at the top of the garden for brewing bigger batches of compost tea. We found a youtube video that showed us basically all we needed to know, here. We
We have one 12 foot bed of strawberries and they are finally starting to ripen. We have picked about 4.5 lbs so far, but these are the everbearing variety, so we’ll hopefully be in strawberries all summer. We had bought some strawberries recently from the store. They were huge and absolutely gorgeous, but they didn’t