Here in southern Virginia, the last frost date is about May 1, so we’re not quite ready to stick plants or seeds in the ground yet, but when the time comes, the garden is ready! Debbie and I spent all day last Saturday in 45-degree weather finishing up the square-foot garden plot. Spring seemed very [...]
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The garden ready for spring
Posted in do-it-ourselves, garden, good thoughts, projects, vegetables, weather, tagged compost, deer proof garden, garden fence, garden gate, growing mix, homesteading, mulch, organic compost, peat moss, square foot garden, sustainable life, vermiculite on March 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 2x8s. 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. [...]
One if by land
Posted in simple things, tagged alternative lighting, amish lantern, candles, dietz, homesteading, kerosene lantern, lantern, lehman's, power outage, simple things, sustainable life on March 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I noticed today that the Old North Church has gone modern, replacing the old lanterns with LED lights. Some things should never change, so if you hanker for the old lantern that Paul Revere used in the Old North Church (“one if by land, two if by sea”) to warn the colonists that the British [...]
Want local? Better grow it yourself
Posted in do-it-ourselves, food, vegetables, tagged Dervaes, federal government farm subsidy program, homesteading, local food movement, organic food, square foot garden, sustainable life, urban homestead, vegetable garden on March 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I read a disturbing op-ed piece in the New York Times by a midwestern farmer trying to grow vegetables for his local market. Seems like the federal government, the USDA, and the big agribusiness lobby have all joined forces to prevent the local food movement from growing local food. Read My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables) [...]
The bird feeders
Posted in animals, tagged animals, bird feeder, birds, birdseed, birdwatching, bluebirds, feeding the birds, goodthoughts, pretty kitty, simple life, simplify, squirrels, sustainable life on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We finally filled up our bird feeders today. The wind last week broke one, but the others survived. (Notice how the wind peeled the lattice off the deck. I fixed that today, too.) The big feeder sits outside our den window, so we watch the birds in the morning after breakfast while we’re drinking our [...]
Buck saw in action
Posted in simple things, tagged buck saw, chain saw, firewood, green tools, homesteading, lehman's, saws, self-sufficient, simple life, simple things, small town homestead, sustainable life, zero carbon emissions on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here I am with my new buck saw from Lehman’s. We have several trees down in the very back of our lot, and we’re trying to clear all this out before spring. A chain saw would make quick work of this. However, as you can tell from my technique in the photo, it might also [...]
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