Everything outside is either dead or sleeping (well, except the chickens of course), but we are nowhere near empty here […]
Harvesting January Read More »
canning, cooking, farmers market, food forest, food preservation, harvest, locavore, modern homesteading, recipesWhen my mother was looking for a new house several years ago, one of the many things she wanted was
Overrun with Asian Pears Read More »
cooking, food preservation, harvest, modern homesteading
I am looking forward to a Sunday evening when I am not butchering livestock in my backyard. For the past
The Fo-Po Garden Tour was a lot of fun, and it was some serious motivation for us to get things
Although I consider myself an early-riser, to me that means I get up sometime after 7:30am. I so dislike getting
I can see how my routines look awfully strange to people sometimes. When I recap my weekend, for example, it’s
Typical Spring Evening Read More »
backyard livestock, chickens, modern homesteading, potatoes, randomI have this bad habit of working so hard to preserve the harvest and then actually forgetting all about it
Roll Out the Harvest Read More »
cooking, harvest, modern homesteadingGrowing Gardens, a local non-profit here in Portland, is hosting their 5th Annual Tour de Coops this summer on July
Ah.. ten days off work and I decided to take a little hiatus. Lovely holiday, merriment was had. Back to
Okay, I am tired of sheet mulching. I am going to pretend this is the final chapter of the project,
The Great Sheet Mulching 2007 (Part III of III) Read More »
compost, garden, modern homesteading, mulch, permaculture, sheet mulching, soil health