Tag Archive for ‘blueberries’
JOLTIN’ JOE!
With hard economic times, here are a few ways to pinch those pennies.
There are some advantages to living in the city. Goods and services are more readily available and nearby as compared to living in the country.
JUNE HARVEST TALLY
June is the tipping point month were things can either go up hill or downhill … and fast! So far, we are holding steady. Some things are growing well, while others not so much.
REAL FOOD, REAL SIMPLE: URBAN HOMESTEAD WEEKLY EATS
The wonderful food from the garden keeps coming. What a tremendous blessings it is to enjoy such bounty that are grown just feet from our table!
WEEKLY MEAL WRAP UP
The meals last week were certainly very colorful and tasty. We are still working on using up the huge bag of carrots we harvested a few weeks back so we enjoyed an easy and very delicious carrot salad with almost each one of our meals. The tromboncino squashes are young and very tender and sweet [...]
WEEKLY MEAL WRAP UP
The weather is still cool for this time of year. I have to pinch myself – can’t believe it’s August! I’ve noticed too that there’s not been many June bugs either. Spotted only two this week, last year we had a whole army of ‘em – it was like an invasion! Well, we are just [...]
WEEKLY MEAL WRAP UP
What’s with the weather? Today and yesterday morning it feels like fall? I know the coolness will burn off once the sun comes out but it really doesn’t feel like the August we are so used to. Jordanne and I were commenting on the sound – it changed. Yeah, sounds funny but it’s not. We [...]
FRUITOPIA
Summer means hot temps and fruit, fruit, fruit. Here on the urban homestead we are harvesting grapes, apples, peaches, blueberries (have a whole ziplock bagful!) and strawberries. Ripening soon will be figs and elderberries. For some reason, don’t know if it has to do with the weather but the clusters of grapes contain semi ripe, [...]
GA URBAN HOMESTEADING WORKSHOP REVIEW
Summertime garden IN SEASON By Deborah Geering For the Journal-Constitution Thursday, April 02, 2009 When I walked into the Urban Homesteading workshop at the Georgia Organics annual conference a couple of weeks ago, I was expecting a speaker who was —- well —- a little nutty. After all, what kind of person does it take [...]
GARDEN OF EATIN’
Orlando Home & Leisure Magazine, October 2008 A Landscape Good Enough to Eat Save your money, improve your cooking and help save the planet by transforming your lawn into an edible landscape. By Cindy Heroux No, we’re not suggesting you chow down on that boxwood hedge or dine on dracenas, but there’s a growing movement [...]
ON THE ‘STEAD
Clay pot irrigation tomato bed. Cassidy, our cat, sleeps among the rows of tomatoes Plants are heavy with sun ripen tomatoes. No salmonella worries on our farm! Summer blooms. It’s a jungle out there. Lady bug earth oven nestles amongst the garden greenery Backyard garden growing up! The garden giants take over! The four corners [...]
