Garden Tour Video – June 2016
Here is Sarah’s video tour of our garden for this year.
Shiitake Mushroom Update
Our first foray into inoculating our own oak logs can be viewed, here. That was about 15 months ago, and we have harvested some mushrooms since then, but this was our first sizable harvest of about 4 lbs. We thought we might have let our logs get too dry over the winter, but the boys
Making Homemade Pesto
This is how I know it’s officially summer! Cleaning gallons of fresh basil. We have 5 types of basil growing in the garden this year: Napolitano, Genovese, Lettuce Leaf, Lemon, and Holy Basil. We use all but the Lemon and Holy (they are more for teas) in our pesto. Picking the leaves off the stems,
Sam and Sam on the Appalachian Trail – Update
The Sams with ‘The Village’, which is what they call their group of hiking buddies on the trail. They should have left Hot Springs, NC and be headed for Hampton, TN for their next resupply at Uncle Johnny’s Hostel. Sam C. said he was having ‘ridiculous amounts of fun’. We are so glad that he
Save the Tortoises!
We’ve seen lots of these tortoises on our property this year. Ben is just as fascinated by them as the dogs! When we see one on the road, he usually asks to stop so he can help it across before it gets hit. This kid! On a mission to save the tortoises…
Sam & Sam on the Appalachian Trail – Update
We heard from Sam C. last night. They are having a good time and getting their ‘Trail Legs’. They should be hiking into North Carolina today and staying at the Muskrat Creek shelter (81 miles in). Looking Good! Sam O. taking in the rhododendrons Beautiful mountain views!
Homeowner Review of the Stanley CH7 Chipper/Shredder
We own a small home nestled in 10 acres of woods in rural Tennessee. We have a fenced in garden at the front of the property and are clearing land in the back of the property for a new home and garden. We needed a good chipper to process all of our tree limbs and
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The Chicken Compound
We didn’t expect to be THIS involved in raising chickens when we moved out here. We started out with 7 hens in the smaller coop on the left of this picture, but this is our third summer here and we’ve built a larger coop (on the right) and have a total of 22 free range
Sam and Sam Hiking on the Appalachian Trail
Sam Carrillo (Sarah’s son) and his friend Sam Oleson, both from Arizona, are off to hike on the Appalachian Trail this Summer. They started the approach trail at Amicalola Falls on the morning of June 1. They are as prepared as any 19 and 20 year olds can be, with lots of help from their
Tiny House Firewood Useage with Morso 1410 Woodstove
We have come to the end of our wood stove use for the season. This is the first full year that we’ve heated our tiny house (< 400 sq. ft.) with wood. It was a mild winter and we ended up using a little less than a cord of wood in our Morso 1410 ‘The
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