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
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
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
Seed Starting Calendar
It’s important to start out the growing season with a plan for when and where you are going to grow
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garden, seeds
Favorite Edible Evergreens
Winter is the perfect time of year to size up the evergreen structure, or lack thereof, in your garden space.
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design, garden, plants
2016 Vegetable Garden Plan
This year my vegetable gardening plans are bursting at the seams! I poured over seed catalogs this winter, put in
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design, garden, vegetables
2016 Seed Order
I spent the cold dark days of winter pouring over my seed catalogs and dreaming of spring. The flowering quince
Celebrating the Solstice
Celebrating the Winter Solstice is my escape from the holiday frenzy that reaches it’s peak about this time. I am
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green living, random, winter vegetables
Goodnight Garden
Juniper and River were both sleeping inside as Jay puttered around the house, so I seized the moment by taking solitary
Preserving Chanterelle Mushrooms
This fall I spent more time hunting chanterelle mushrooms in the woods than I spent in our own garden. The combination of
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drying, food preservation, foraging, freezing, harvest, mushrooms