Spring is my favorite season with all the flowers. Absolutely the best. It starts off with a taste of winter, but with a change of the quality of the air. There’s more humidity. And the rain hits. It rains, and rains, and rains, until the garden is flooded, the ducks have an unnatural puddle to …
Flower shopping with my mom and grandmother, petunias were a must to have in our gardens every year. Flower centers start these from plugs to then continue growing for their customers. Most petunias from the store are started from cuttings, which use an asexual method of reproducing the plant. With Baker Creek offering heirloom seeds, …
I shared in a previous post about my top five gardening fails and growing from them. I’m going to continue sharing my fails to help you not make the same, encourage you to keep going even if you fail with something, and to always keep learning from gardening. The only way you will fail with …
When gardening, it is not going to be perfect. Plants are living things, and they can die. A lot of hard work, time, and energy goes into gardening, but things happen where the plants do end up dying. Sometimes it is the cause of our own hands. Other times, the weather, bugs, rodents, or whatever …
Raising chicks is enjoyable to see something grow. Their first week, they are the cutest, being so fresh with life. In the first week, be aware that the chicks can lose their life easily. The one problem during this time that I have seen through multiple years, whether from buying from a local store or …
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Wanting to have a flock of chickens for eggs or to raise some meat birds for some homegrown meals starts with raising baby chicks. Sometimes, you can find locally birds that are grown by a few weeks, or ones that people bought chickens, but then realized it is not for them. We bought adult birds …
Tacos are amazing. Substantial beef. Nutritious vegetables. Delicious dairy. All wrapped up in a toasted tortilla. What makes a traditional taco recipe even better is making homegrown venison tacos. The hamburger is ground venison from our deer season. Salsa is homegrown with our own tomatoes, jalapenos, garlic, and onions. Making these few substitutes from store-bought …
I love having an abundance of meat in our freezer. The food is prepped, ready to be thawed, and used. I don’t need to take a trip to the store or local butcher shop to buy the meat for the week. The day before, I brainstorm what I would like to make and eat, and …
I love having an abundance of meat in our freezer. The food is prepped, ready to be thawed, and used. I don’t need to take a trip to the store or local butcher shop to buy the meat for the week. The day before, I brainstorm what I would like to make and eat, and …
At my family’s farm, it originally had a huge orchard. Some of those trees still exist and provide an abundance to fruit every season from the transparent apples for applesauce to the fall September apples for pies, cakes, and just an everyday snack. My husband’s family loves their apples too. Every fall they gather up …