Seed Exchange Party
Sunday I took a nice long drive up north of Seattle, Washington, to participate in a seed exchange at Laura’s […]
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events, frugal, green living, seedsHarvesting January
Everything outside is either dead or sleeping (well, except the chickens of course), but we are nowhere near empty here
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canning, cooking, farmers market, food forest, food preservation, harvest, locavore, modern homesteading, recipesDriveway Project Complete
The driveway is done! This project would typically take about two weekends to build, but we had a snow storm
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projectsAmerican Victory Gardens in World War II
For those of you who commented on my last post or emailed me asking to read the research paper I
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victory gardenGrowing a Victory Garden
Recently I have been working on a small research paper about the history of Victory Gardens in the US during
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frugal, victory gardenSnow Delay
It’s a winter wonderland in Portland right now. Yesterday we made tremendous progress with the driveway using pavers. I had
Diggin the Driveway
One big step in our future driveway project is now complete: the driveway has been fully dug out. It took
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projectsGarden Karma
This weekend I have been contributing to the world of garden karma. Sometimes we take, and sometimes we give back.
Divide and Conquer
It’s been quite rainy here in Portland, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to capitalize on frugality in the
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food forest, frugal, plantsPotato Tires Harvest
Several months ago I began the experiment of growing potatoes in recycled tires. It seemed like a good, logical idea.
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potatoes, vegetables