Adventures in Gardening: Fail.
So, you might be wondering what ever happened to the herbs I planted a while back? Well, the inevitable happened. I killed them. All of them. Ok, well, not all of them, there are still a few really sad...
View ArticleAdventures in Gardening: Let’s Try Again!
Some long-time readers may remember that about 2 years ago, I decided to plant a garden and chronicle it on the blog. And it failed. In a major way. As in… everything died. Well, last year, I decided...
View ArticleAdventures in Gardening Update!
So it’s been over a month since we planted our garden, and MAN has it grown. First up? Our tomatoes! We planted 5 little tomato plants. You may remember, they looked like this: How about now? Check it...
View ArticleAdventures in Gardening: The Harvest
Since I’ve started posting some recipes with my garden veggies, I thought it was time for an update! If you’re catching up: Here’s how I started my garden and here’s my last update. If you follow me on...
View ArticleAdventures in Gardening: Winter Edition
I’ve mentioned my winter garden, but haven’t actually done a post on it yet, so I figured it was time! Catch up on garden posts here: Adventures in Gardening, Gardening Update, The Harvest. We’ve never...
View ArticleWelcome to the Farm! {grow your own food}
I think we all know by now that I pretty much live on a farm. My 25-year-old city-girl self would never have believed that this is where I’d be 5 years later– in the middle of nowhere with a pen full...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – Fall is here!
Happy Friday! It’s finally cooling down a little bit, so this week has been grrrreat! We spent last weekend with a bunch of my family in the beautiful area of Point Reyes, California. It’s a little...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – Drink your veggies!
Happy Harvest Friday! Here’s what we picked this week… Last weekend we were doing a pizza night and Nick requested I make a sun-dried tomato pesto that I’d made a few times this summer for pizzas. I...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – The Winter Garden
Friday, already? I’m not complaining! This week, my garden did lots of growing. Sadly, I didn’t do too much picking. I had a weird stomach bug or something for half the week, and although I could still...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – Halloween and Leafy Greens!
Happy Halloween! I’m sure every one has had (or will have) way too much candy already today, so how about a few veggies? It’s all about balance, right? I skipped last week’s Harvest Friday and decided...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – Root, root, roots!
The past few weeks I have been harvesting roots of all sorts! Fall is all about root veggies and my garden is right on time. Check out these gorgeous (and huge) French Breakfast radishes! I know, they...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – Roasted Radishes with Radish Greens
Less than two weeks until Christmas. Can you believe it? I surely cannot. Especially since it was 70 degrees here a couple days this week. I’m loving it, and so is my garden! We’ve been harvesting tons...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – I’m alive!
Oh, hey! I’m alive! Yep, it’s true. I made it through the new year. I do still exist. Nick and I flew out to Boston for the holidays and I pretty much abandoned everything else. I had a few posts ready...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – A Garden Makeover
Last weekend was a big weekend for our garden area. I mentioned last week that we are installing an aquaponic garden setup, and last weekend we started to do some of the groundwork for that. We had to...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – Broccoli and Cauliflower!
Ok, I know it’s way late in the day, but… at least it’s still Friday!! Something really exciting happened today. Our aquaponics system arrived! I was out running earlier in the day and when I got home...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – Greenhouse Video Tour
Hi friends! I have a special treat for you today. My super duper awesome hubby made a quick little video tour of what we’ve gotten done on our greenhouse so far. I couldn’t make it myself because A. I...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – The Aquaponic Garden
Happy Friday! Time to check in on the garden. It seems like so much has happened since the last update. When we last left off, we had just finished building the greenhouse and had started to put...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – Aquaponics Update – The fish!
Happy Harvest Friday! When we last left off, our aquaponics system was up and cycling, but the water levels weren’t quite ready for fish yet. Now… we officially have fish! So far, we only have 10...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays & Happy Easter!
Hey all. Happy Harvest Friday! I’ve got a busy weekend ahead, so I’m going to jump right into it. Also, Happy Easter! Hope you have a great weekend filled with candy eggs and carrot cake. Aquaponics...
View ArticleHarvest Fridays – Where are our fish!?
Hey all. Happy Harvest Friday! I was out of town all week so I have a major back up of veggies. I need to do some serious salad-eating over the next few days. Tomorrow I am going to be talking about...
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