for the first year living up here, we did nothing except try to plant a garden (didn’t happen) and had a baby (adam!). that was a lot for us, so we took it easy the fall and winter of our first year. but plans started picking up the following spring and we dove head-first into
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i missed week one because i couldn’t pull together a meal with strawberries and asparagus – the only two things in season right now! week two will be published at farm to philly. stay tuned for more delicious meal ideas! so i did more searching and purchasing this week. i splurged and went with local
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we’re thisclose to getting the plans for our summer garden in. we’ve extended it by several feet this year and we’re still planning which plants and seeds go where. it’s also that time of year to sign up for a very cool summer challenge – one local summer. so all you foodies and gardeners out
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we’ve been spending the majority of our days on the outside of the house lately. it feels great to not need a coat, and to roam the yard again without heavy boots and deep snow keeping us from walking easily. maybe it’s because this yard has so much more foliage and life beneath the ground
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our garden continues to be munched on by a particular small, grey rodent of sorts…some things are surviving, but i’m afraid that our pole beans will not produce beans this year. the lima bean plants look really good, however, as do the green pepper, celery, and one lone cucumber plant. and our tomatoes? they’re going
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kenny should really be the one writing this post, but he gave up blogging for Lent a while back and just never got back into it (actually, it was around the time sawyer was born, 2004, when he gave up on blogging). he’s the mastermind behind our next big project, which kicked off officially today:
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i want to wish all the dads in my life a very happy father’s day. we had a fantastic day except for the…devastation. here is another picture from the series of photos i took in the garden JUST LAST NIGHT (by the way, that’s mud on adam’s rear in the previous post…not chicken poop. there
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since i post a lot about the gardens and gardening that we have, i get asked a lot, “how do you garden with three little boys?” first, a disclaimer: our gardening isn’t extravagant. remember those perrenial gardens i post a lot about? they’re mostly weeds with a few gorgeous flowers here and there. we just
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our summer vegetable garden was growing by leaps and bounds. and then…just like THAT…90% of our beans disappeared. we noticed a few of the leaves chopped off on monday, and by tuesday morning, we had ten left of the forty-some plants that had grown to three inches tall. yesterday, we noticed one of our beautiful
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