Rain To Green
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bawk-bawks and chirpies. #chickens #turkeys #tinyfarm
Me and my best friend, Grace.
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The irrigation system is working! Yes!!! Now I don’t have to worry about the garden dying due to my laziness :D
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Storing garden tools with style
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what if rocks are actually soft but just tense up when we touch them?
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Broccoli baby!
I tried a beef hot dog last night for the first time in at least 4+ years likely longer but I can’t say for sure. It didn’t go well. For one thing I really don’t eat beef. I raise my own chickens/rabbits to eat and usually split a half a hog with my family. So beef in my diet is really rare (ha see what I did there)…. never mind, where was I? Oh yeah, beef hot dog. It went down fine but about an hour later my tummy started to ache like I swallowed a brick. The same feeling lactose intolerant people describe after they eat ice cream. Something in that hot dog did not sit well with my gut bacteria and a war broke out in my stomach. Nobody won, it all came back out about 1.5 hours later. Plus to add insult to injury, I feel hungover this morning. I don’t drink so something in that hot dog isn’t right.
No hot dogs for me this Memorial Weekend (or ever again). I hope everyone’s weekend is filled with awesome!
Both cleaver and adorable!
The live action tale of what happened last night in the garden. How I covered the plants to prepare for frost. Thankfully it wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been.
Well this happened last night. It makes me eminently grateful for weather prediction. That is one thing, if the world as we know it should end, I would miss horribly. Semi accurate weather prediction is such a valuable tool for gardeners. I think it’s under rated, but damn if I don’t check the weather several times a day. Especially in the fickle spring weather. So today, weather man a special thank you from me*.
*my future tomatoes thank you too.
I posted some pictures of these hummingbirds a few weeks ago. Now I’ve finally gotten around to editing the video. The red one is the male and the green is female. Enjoy the cuteness.
Homemade soap. Now it must cure for 4-6 weeks.
Blanched some swiss chard! This stuff was over wintered and growing like crazy. I was able to cut and pack a plastic grocery store bag full of the stuff. I knew I couldn’t keep up with this much since I have kale ready to eat also. So I opted to blanch and freeze then I’ll enjoy it in the winter in smoothies!
The much promised video about our trip to look at the future rental place. Plus some video of Izzy the pig.
Doughganic
I wonder what the days to maturity is for these?
This is great! Do they come in organic though?
I was just perusing the interwebs soaking up information when I came across these two articles. They are fantastic reads, one makes my blood boil and the other is fascinating in a terrifying kinda way.
The EPA okay’s pesticide Highly Toxic to honey bee’s.
Which discusses the new pesticide “sulfoxaflor” which will be sprayed broadly from canola to vegetables. It does come with the warning not to be sprayed 3 days before bloom and until petal fall. Which “minimizes” the risk to pollinators. Still. Not. Okay. This makes me so damn angry and even more distrustful of any government institution! It’s a good article, maddening but a really great read.
An article, mostly dialogue back and forth with a reporter and the Killer Bee guy (KBG). The KBG explains about killer bees and what he does. He will remove them from your house or failing that, shore up the entrance to kill them all. He collects the honey from these africanized bees and sells it on his website. The KBG describes a few close calls where he had to split, because the hive was so aggressive. In once instance the bees followed the car for 2 miles!!!! That is terrifying!
But the scariest thing of all. Africanized killer bees have been found as far north as Wisconsin and Northern California. They are coming my fellow Northerner’s whether we like it or not.
Dinner!
Giant bunch of Kale
1 bannana
1.5 cups Frozen peaches
1/4 cup walunts
1 scoop protein powder
splash of maple syrup
1 Tbl. Flax seed oil
16-18 oz. water
Serves: 2, 20 oz. glasses of green goodness!
It’s amazing to me how fast the garden grows. Was I whining just 2+ weeks ago about the snow and now, flowers? I’m pretty sure it’s the micro climate I’m in. The weather tends to skip late spring all together and leap frog into 80* heat. I love the warmth but it sure is a shock to the system. I left town for 3 days in one of those weather leap frogs. I came back to weeds, shin high grass and flowers. I love this weather. But spring time makes people crazy, me included. The danger of frost or a threat of a sudden flash downpour and aphids, shit it’s like living in an action film! Okay maybe not, but it could be!
All kidding aside I love this time of year. Getting seeds in the ground, while the rain clouds threaten to drive you indoors. Plus mud, mud, mud! Enjoy the spring growth explosion my Northern gardening friends. For soon we will be begging for the cool October weather.
