Our first summer of vegetable gardening has been a rewarding experience for Chuck and me. It’s sort of like being first time parents…you start out reading every book you can get your hands on…you’re a little tense and nervous about doing the wrong thing…and then finally you put up the books and follow your [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gardening’
The garden matures
Posted in food, garden, vegetables, tagged gardening, organic gardening, raised beds, square foot gardens, squash bugs, tomatoes, vegetable garden on August 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Back to the rhythm of ordinary
Posted in animals, food, garden, projects, vegetables, tagged bluebirds, community center, gardening, herb garden, honey, local produce, rat snakes, small town homestead, strawberries, vegetable gardening on May 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What a week this has been! Last Saturday, after picking up some homegrown strawberries and honey from the bees of our friends, Carson and Jean, we spent the afternoon working in the garden. That evening we checked our bluebird box where a bluebird couple was raising a batch of 4 new babies. As Debbie [...]
Gardening with bluebirds
Posted in animals, garden, tagged bluebird babies, bluebirds, bluebirds houses, gardening, organic gardening, raised beds on May 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We’re growing bluebirds along with our vegetables this year! The fence of our vegetable garden runs right beside one of our bluebird houses.
Sometime between Sunday night and Wednesday morning the 3 blue eggs in the nest hatched and we now have 3 featherless pink bluebirds! They sleep with their very large mouths open and ready. [...]
Seedlings are up!
Posted in food, garden, vegetables, tagged bedding plants, gardening, seed trays, seedlings, seeds, sprouting, tomatoes, transplants on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Debbie planted three trays of seeds about 2 weeks ago, and already several seedlings are up! The “big” seedlings in the foreground are cucumbers, so they’re coming right along. The second tray has tomatoes — 3 varieties — and so far we have 72 plants in one tray. All of them sprouted, so we [...]
Square-foot garden taking shape
Posted in animals, do-it-ourselves, garden, projects, vegetables, tagged DIY, do-it-yourself, gardening, organic gardening, pretty kitty, raised beds, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, simple life, square foot garden, sustainable life, vegetable bed preparation, vegetable garden on March 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Debbie and I assembled the raised bed boxes for our square-foot vegetable garden yesterday and today. Here’s what we used:
Eight 8′ rough sawn 2×8s. Cost: $54.00
32 galvanized lag bolts. Cost $21.00
17′ of 48″ wide hardware cloth (wire mesh). Cost $34.00
34′ of 36″ wide landscape fabric. Cost: $16.50
Total cost was $125.50. [...]
Tending the path
Posted in labyrinth, tagged environmentally friendly, garden, gardening, God, labyrinth, nontoxic, onions, path, peaceful, planting, tending on February 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Late Monday afternoon, while Chuck was filling up the bird feeders, I grabbed my trowel and walked down to our labyrinth. It sits on the far end of our backyard where it’s peaceful and quiet…well, almost. There’s one exception…or maybe hundreds…it’s those screaming wild onions dancing down our peaceful path!
I do see the irony of [...]
Welcome to Eden’s Path
Posted in flowers, food, good thoughts, labyrinth, projects, vegetables, tagged creation care, gardening, God's guidance, good life, homesteading, labyrinth, simple life, spend less, sustainable living on February 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here we are after we built our backyard labyrinth!
Hi, we’re Debbie and Chuck, and this blog is about our journey to simplify our lives and live in the rhythm of God’s grace. Join us here at Eden’s Path, as we move toward a life that is both gentle and sustainable. We’re trying [...]
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