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November 01, 2014
Sourdough Benefits
Ever wonder if sourdough bread is really that different from "regular" bread? Other than the fact that sourdough bread and sourdough bagels use a sourdough starter to leaven the dough (make the dough rise), while most "regular" breads use yeast, are they really that different? And if they are different, does it really matter?
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October 02, 2014
Processing Jewelweed
Last week I talked about how we harvested jewelweed to be used in our jewelweed soap and jewelweed salve. Once Greyden and Emery collect all of the jewelweed, it's time to process it. Jade does "quality control on it first".
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July 04, 2014
Harvesting and Preserving Vegetables
In years past, we have spent many hours canning, dehydrating, fermenting, and freezing our fruits and vegetables. Lately, the children are eating more and more of the produce straight from the garden, so I find there is less need to preserve.
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July 03, 2014
Perennials in the Vegetable Garden
I am a big fan of perennials because you can plant them once and they come back year after year. In our vegetable garden, the only perennial "vegetable" that we plant is asparagus.
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July 02, 2014
The Herb Garden
Over the years we have planted many different kinds of herbs. We like to cook with them, eat them raw, and use them in our soap! Some of our favorites are basil, parsley, and rosemary. If you've never done much cooking with fresh herbs, you'll be amazed at the difference.
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June 30, 2014
The Home Orchard
Having access to our own fruit is absolutely wonderful. In our orchard we plant not only tree fruit, but berries as well. At the new house, we're working on establishing our orchard.
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June 27, 2014
How To Build a Cattle Panel Trellis
There are a lot of vegetable plants that benefit from being supported. For our tomatoes, we generally use tomato cages* that are strengthened with t-posts*
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June 26, 2014
Gardening Isn't Just for Summer
In the past I've had a greenhouse. But to be perfectly honest, I always found it a lot of work and I never enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed gardening the rest of the year.
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June 25, 2014
Rotating Your Vegetables in the Garden
Once we had all of our garden beds built, we had to decide how to lay out the plants within the beds. We try to spread out our vegetables so we have a little bit of everything everywhere.
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June 24, 2014
The Importance of Building Your Soil
One of the main reasons that I have a garden is so that I can have a reliable source of healthy vegetables for my children to eat. I have found that even organic vegetables aren't necessarily grown in nutrient-rich soil.
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June 23, 2014
Weed Control in the Garden
If there is one chore in the garden that causes me stress, it is weeding. Not the day-to-day weeding, but when the weeds get out of control! In every garden I've ever had, at some point throughout the growing season, the weeds got ahead of me.
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June 20, 2014
How To Water Your Garden the Easy Way
I grew up in New Jersey - the "Garden State". We always watered our garden. But when I moved out to Indiana, I was shocked that few people watered their gardens.
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