Sarah and I are enjoying our Thanksgiving Holiday alone at our house this year due to a rise in Covid-19 cases. Sarah’s school has gone back to all virtual classes just recently for an unknown period of time. The hospitals in Tennessee are straining to handle all the influx in cases. We couldn’t fit our […]
We had seed shortages this past Spring due to Covid-19. Local and mail order seed suppliers both had slim inventory. This Fall Sarah joined some seed swapping Facebook groups and has been having good results finding many of the seeds we will need in the Spring. We even found Jerusalem Artichoke (sunchokes) tubers that we
We just had our first frost. We harvested all of our remaining basil, eggplant, tomatoes, peppers and some herbs in preparation for our first frost. Sarah made our pesto recipe with all of the basil. I have some kind of reaction to pine nuts and they change my tastebuds so that sweet tastes bitter for
We have two chest freezers in the workshop. I’ve heard stories of people losing a freezer full of food due to power loss or freezer malfunction. We wanted a way to monitor those freezers from our house, which is about 60 feet away. We have been using this AMIR Wireless Refrigerator/Freezer Alarm for over 2
My parents had a stray kitten show up at their house. She stuck around for a day, so my dad asked if we wanted her. She’ll be an outdoor cat. She spent a few days getting introduced to our place, the dogs, free range chickens and the other cats. She’s taken up residence in one
With so many people growing or expanding their vegetable garden this year it has caused shortages of several things in our area. Seed companies are sold out of some seeds including mail order and local suppliers. Canning jars and lids are in really short supply. New and used freezers are really hard to find in
Yayyy…..another post about COVID-19. No worries, you’re not obligated to read any further. There are about 328 million Americans, with a 60% minimum infection rate needed for herd immunity at….lets say 1/2% (.005) fatality rate equals about 1 million Americans dead from COVID-19. That is a possibility if we sit back and don’t follow the
Zucchini season is ON! (because how often do you see a funny internet meme about zucchini?) We have an abundance of summer squash from our garden that we’ve been trying to eat and preserve as we harvest them. We like to make a hearty stew, squash burgers and zucchini bread. However, I want to try
We were fortunate that another swarm of bees moved into a bait hive at my parents’ property. This morning we transferred the bees into a new 20 frame Layens hive at our place. They had some comb built on all 7 frames. We saw the queen, eggs, capped and uncapped brood, pollen, and capped and
We have a clipboard by the front door. Everything we bring in from the garden is weighed and recorded with the date. At the end of the year I’ll enter it into a spreadsheet so we can see how many pounds of each crop we harvested and our total for the year.