June 5, 2018 Crafting Cages Last month we built two big mobile cages for our livestock One is for the “teenager” chickens (those between just feathered and adult, about 6 weeks to 24 weeks). Rebeccah bought the clearance Buff Orpington straight run (mixed males and females) from Tractor Supply at [...]
May 24, 2018 Elephant Ears One of my favorite garden bulbs is what we call “Elephant Ears.” These are from three bulbs that we dug up in some weeds when we first moved in. They were tiny, neglected, and crowded. With good fertilizer and plenty of water, (we didn’t have [...]
May 22, 2018 Results of the Rains In late Florida Spring, we get rain. Who am I kidding? We get flooded. Our meteorologists have a very easy job. They can say, “we have a 100% chance of rain at some point today with clouds and a chance of thundershowers.” We [...]
May 2, 2018 Pineapple One of our favorite fruits is the pineapple. The best of the best is fresh cut. (We will get them straight off our bushes someday!) Pineapple is great with pork, in oriental dishes, on pizza, in a cake, in muffins, or just plain and juicy sweet. [...]
April 23, 2018 Understanding and Choosing Forgiveness Sometimes things make us irritated. Loss, waste, and destruction of life are hot spots for me. We have livestock. Honestly, I can shrug off an owl or hawk picking off a young chicken. I can understand the predators are getting food and my [...]
March 3, 2018 Spring Seeds Florida likes to tease our tropical plants a bit with a fake spring. It’s really the start of spring weather but we will have at least one more cold snap to remind us that we do participate briefly in the season the rest of the [...]
February 16, 2018 Garden Lesson Cold, actually cool (we’re in Florida, “cold” means less than 50 degrees), breezes attacked us. Winter means pruning roses, repotting figs, starting seeds in pots, and refreshing the soil in beds for spring sowing, all to prepare the garden for a new crop. Newness. Even [...]
A sneak peek at Long Tail and the Big Storm [...]
Our natural solution to ticks. [...]