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7 Foods So Unsafe Even Farmers Won’t Eat Them – Planet Green.

Filed under: Cooking/Baking, Gardening, Homesteading, Making Home on June 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

Since I don’t know who my readers are, I am going to cater this post to those who have no idea how to ’step softly.’  This list is just a start to the many, many ways that you can make a difference.  I will try to blog about these individually . . . uh . [...]

Filed under: Bath and Body, Cloth Diapering, Gardening, Green Cleaning, Green Living, Homesteading, Making Home on March 14th, 2010 | No Comments »

I’ve always had this thing for African Violets.  When I first went off to college one of the several plants that I took with me was an African Violet.  My Momma had never been able to keep them alive for very long, but for some reason I always had a knack for them.  And the [...]

Filed under: Gardening, Making Home on February 9th, 2010 | No Comments »

So, we got our seeds in the mail.  Yay!  We are looking forward to this years garden.  We plan to make it even bigger this year.  Some of the seeds that I got from Seed Savers Exchange, so far, are:

Garden Huckleberry
Early Snowball Cauliflower
Golden Bantam Corn
Clemson Spineless Okra
Blacktail Mountain Watermelon
Aunt Molly’s Ground Cherry
Scarlet Nantes Carrot
Calabresse Broccoli
Cilantro
Green [...]

Filed under: Gardening, Homesteading, Making Home on February 8th, 2010 | No Comments »

We have really been enjoying are garden lately.  This basket is small in comparison to what we have been picking most days.  My favorite tomato this year has, by far, been the Golden Jubilee.  It has a nice shaped yellow/orange fruit with a wonderful flavor. They are the lighter colored tomatoes in the basket.
We experimented [...]

Filed under: Gardening on July 12th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Filed under: Gardening, Motherhood on April 29th, 2009 | No Comments »

I am so excited about our garden this year.  We have already:

corn
peppers
kale
arugula
onions
okra
squash
zucchini
cucumbers
tomatoes
pole beans
sugar snap peas

I still hope to find time to plant some cantalope, watermelon and pumpkin later this weekend.  I’m sure that I will come up with some other things that we forgot as well.  I have yet to find peanuts, popcorn and [...]

Filed under: Gardening, Homesteading on April 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment »