gardening
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This was my winter tomato set up from 5 years ago. I was able to grow tomatoes and herbs while there was 3 feet of snow outside. My brother and I jury-rigged this out of almost nothing. With the coronavirus and possibly a depression coming, this kind of ingenuity will need to become the standard.
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Keep in mind while watching this video, that this is after only FIVE YEARS OF GROWTH!!!
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Written on Wednesday the 5th Today I walked down to the mail to wait for UPS to come. They will leave packages by the land company sign if I ask them to, but they won’t cross the bridge to get to my house. Obviously there becomes the problem of the package possibly walking off with someone
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Homestead Update for November and the first half of December The beginning of November was still relatively warm, at least from the perspective of someone who is not only from the Michigan/Indiana area, but has gone four years without heat in their house in the heavy-lake-effect snow area around South Bend. Although most of the
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While all the drama with the truck has been going on, I have still been working on my homestead. Quite by accident, we discovered how to make our own charcoal, which is saving us lots of money. We were cooking in our grill, using small logs of wood from the property. Alex finished cooking the
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We’ve started harvesting and drying the lemon balm. You need to make sure that you pick the leaves off the stems if you are going with the paper bag method, since the stems will hold onto moisture more than the leaves. And that will lead to molding eventually. The lemon balm we planted was a
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So, we bought this land in December of 2015, and started to make trips out here right away. We didn’t move here permanently until March 2016. So we have not spent a full year on the property yet. I think it’s important to not make major decisions about the land until we have been through
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So today is the Vertumnalia, the Roman festival of Vertumnus and Pomona. I have not done as much preparation as I would like. Too often I end up writing rituals the day of a festival, and then I have them ready for next year. Procrastination is a problem I need to deal with. Or I
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Blackberries So, the first few weeks of July, the wild blackberries all over our property ripened. For about 2 weeks, almost every other evening in the last hour before sunset I venture out with a gallon jug with the top cut off (homemade basket, handle left on!) to gather my wild-foraged booty. I lived on
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Temple of Athena the Savior 