Remember all my foraging and brewing adventures? Well… I currently have about a pound and a half of buckwheat sprouting for my next GF beer experiment. Fun! But it doesn’t look like anything special yet, so let’s focus on the other works in progress 🙂 About a week ago, I started a ginger bug. You may…
Category: Garden
Foraging Fun!
I have always said that I want as much of my yard to make food as possible. I garden a little more every year, and there are wild blackberries in my woods, but I’ve decided to take it a step further and put the wildflower to good use 🙂 My current home brewing kick has…
I’m now a chicken momma!
I’ll keep this brief, but just wanted to announce to the world that I brought four sweet little chicks home yesterday! First up is Hedy, a Black Australorp. As soon as I picked her up at the feed store, she curled up in my scarf and tried to take a nap. I instantly fell in…
Chickens, mayhaps?
I eat eggs essentially daily. For years, I have wanted chickens. Everyone around here has chickens. The farm supply store has baby chicks for sale. I can’t stop thinking about chickens! I spent a good chunk of today reading about chickens and trying to design the best/cheapest chicken coop possible (I have a lot of…
Seed starting has commenced…
I was testing some seeds to see if they were still good, but my new seeds came in the mail yesterday, and this morning I decided to just roll the dice and try planting them. So exciting! Over the last few days, I’ve turned an unused closet into a “greenhouse” of sorts. And by “greenhouse”, I…
It’s garden planning season!
When I was 6 years old, my family moved to the town I lived in until college. My mom immediately got into gardening, and built huge gardens throughout the property. She grew lots of vegetables, herbs, and even flowers (many of which she would dry and keep in the house year round). She mom filled our house…
Embracing Epsilon 