Portland Veggie Calendar
I recently finished putting together a vegetable planting calendar resource that I’m excited to return to year after year. Based […]
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design, garden, plants, vegetables
Backyard Rain Garden
Incorporating a rain garden into our homestead allows us to weave natural processes into our backyard. We can still grow
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design, ecology, garden, green living, modern homesteading, projects, rainwater harvesting
2020 Vegetable Garden Plan
This is the most well-thought through vegetable garden I’ve ever created. Take a look at the plan I created, get
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design, garden, modern homesteading, raised beds, seeds, tips, vegetables, winter vegetables
Perfect Pumpkin Puree
You can easily substitute fresh pumpkin for canned pumpkin, but a couple extra steps are needed to ensure the final
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garden
Homesteading with Kids
This is what homesteading with children looks like. Fox, now a toddler, picked these precious San Marzano tomatoes, which he’s
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garden, kids, kids, modern homesteading
Homestead Update: Year Five
Can you believe we’ve been digging our roots into this homestead for five years already? I’m returning for intermittent blogging
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garden
ASLA Award Winner
I was recently presented with a Community Service Award from the Oregon Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architecture
Roasting Chanterelle Mushrooms
I spend a good chunk of the fall foraging for wild mushrooms, specifically chanterelles, around the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
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food preservation, foraging, freezing, green living, harvest, modern homesteading, mushrooms
Homestead Tour
Check out before-and-after photos, garden plans and lots of pretty photos of our homesteads. See how our current home is in
Homestead Garden Update
It has been two years since we uprooted ourselves from our first homestead and planted roots into our new digs – still
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design, garden