Finally Harvesting A Few Hazelnuts
Last month we finally harvested some hazelnuts from a few of our 4 hazelnut bushes. We planted the first one in 2021, and then planted 3 more in 2023.
How We Make Aged Black Garlic
We grow garlic every year, and it’s usually soft neck and elephant garlic varieties in raised beds. We plant cloves in the fall and it overwinters (zone 7b) for harvesting the next year in June. It’s quite easy to grow, there are no pest problems…we pretty much plant it and forget it until harvesting. It’s
Mellif 40-Volt Battery Powered Wheelbarrow Review
We are frequently hauling around garden soil, firewood, building materials, mulch, bags of feed, etc. There isn’t much of our property that is flat ground, so I’ve been looking into either converting a regular wheelbarrow into a battery powered version (check YouTube) or buying some sort of small electric utility vehicle like a Llama truck.
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Building More Cedar Raised Garden Beds
Building more raised garden beds was supposed to be a winter project, but better late than never, right? We have a little less than 1/4 acre fenced in for a kitchen garden, which includes about 24 raised beds and 2 small greenhouses. We have several garden beds that don’t have hard sides. They are just
Making Stackable Wooden Crates For Canning Storage
Our garden fruit and veggies are canned for the year. The problem is that we have to find places to store all these jars. They say you’re not supposed to stack home canned goods more than two flats high, because the excessive weight can compromise the seal on the lids. So, I wanted to build
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Elephant Garlic Harvest
4 years ago we planted 4 cloves of elephant garlic that my parents gave us. We kept replanting most of each years harvest and this year we had an entire raised bed planted out.
Okinawan Sweet Potatoes
We purchased Okinawan sweet potato slips in 2016, and have kept them going every year since. We originally bought Okinawan sweet potato slips from Baker Creek Seeds because Sarah read that they were a common staple food in a ‘blue zone’, which are regions where people routinely live longer than the average life expectancy.
Planting 3 More Hazelnut (American Filbert) Trees
We’ve been looking for hazelnut trees for quite some time now. Two years ago we received one as a gift, and then we ordered a couple more, but they never showed up. Finally, this year we successfully ordered three more from Willis Orchards, and they showed up today via Fed Ex. They were shipped bare
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Signs of Spring
Early morning sights on Maitri Homestead. Wine cap and Lion’s Mane mushrooms, pear blossoms and baby blueberries, pea shoots and greenhouse starts, and mullien… I 💗 spring!
2022 Garden Seedlings
Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and much more under grow lights indoors. Our average last frost date is April 15, so we’re running a little behind schedule…better late than never. Some new plants this year are Goji Berries, Valerian, Mullien, Skullcap and a couple varieties of Persimmons.