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Did that last post make your mouth water? Are you craving some creamy roasted garlic spread on tender slices of Italian style bread? Perhaps a side of simple pasta with a browned butter sauce topped with grated Mizithra cheese? I can tell you from experience that roasting garlic grown a few yards from your kitchen…
Planting Potatoes: Dark of the Moon, Good Friday or St. Patrick’s Day?
Potatoes purchased at the store are no comparison to a freshly dug one from your own garden plot. But in order to dig in July you have to plant in the spring. But when? The old wives’ tale says to plant potatoes on Good Friday. Without knowing who these old wives are it is hard…
Winter Philosophy
At this writing, we are experiencing a Polar Vortex dipping into the middle of the U.S. It brings us some of the lowest temperatures and wind chills in recorded history. We have taken the steps we can to prepare: Check the propane level for the house and the generator Close off the porch Stock up…
Winter Preppers
Yes we are prepping. Not the kind of long term stockpiling that most people think of as prepping. Not building bunkers anticipating a nuclear holocaust. We are prepping for winter. There are things that you must consider living in the country. Each year we learn another lesson. We may or may not have power. The road…
Reduce
*This is a repeat of the article originally published on December 12, 2018 and sent to email subscribers on December 13, 2018. Due to a wrinkle in the blogging universe, it did not display properly.* In my last post I referred to three areas of focus for us to improve our sustainable life style. Reducing…
Decluttering Financial Records
If you have been listening to our podcast Farm Chatter over the past few weeks, you know we have been focused on ridding the house of clutter. (If you haven’t heard one yet, check out Episode 102-The Declutter Report.) One of those decluttering tasks was to purge old financial records. Does anyone else have trouble throwing…
