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Can’t Wait to “Live in Heaven”

Homestead Daughter has a sweet post about the perks of living an agrarian life with her family.  It’s a hopeful reminder to me of the delights that await our family when we begin to live our dream.  Enjoy her lovely … Continue reading

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Gratuitous Generosity in the Backyard

It feels like Christmas in the garden.  We’ve got volunteer plants raising their green heads all over the place–tomatoes and butternut squash and tatume squash and melons and cucumber and, did I mention, tomatoes.  It’s providential, really, because we failed … Continue reading

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A Garden of Good Eats

Yesterday was one of those days when all of the pieces fell into place in our kitchen, making it a day of eating very good food.  For breakfast, we had pancakes with buckwheat-oat-wheat flour ground in my mill, eggs from … Continue reading

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Winter Garden Harvest

Alleluia!  I love saying that word, after a 40+ day drought.  Alleluia, we are harvesting our winter garden.  We ate our first broccoli and kholrabi yesterday evening, and, they weren’t quite what we hoped. The broccoli was mostly woody, though … Continue reading

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Verdant

Verdant: a polite way of saying that something is overgrown. Our garden is very verdant these days.  Our blackberry vine and tomatoes are officially taller than I and the squash vines are now trailing 10 feet over the raised bed … Continue reading

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