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Discovery: Happy Little Plants
Sunflower Hen and chicks Daylilly Blackberry Magnolia Petal Titmouse in front of the Elm Tree
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Garden Update
I’ve been so slack about posting on my multitude of blogs lately. That’s because I’ve been spending most of my time outside when it’s not raining. When it is raining, I’ve been grading my students’ homework and finals or playing with the boys (or fishing out the stuff the baby puts in the commode). Yesterday the Man commented that the garden was really growing up! It’s true, the potato plants are up to my knees, the pole beans are just…
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Discovery: Asparagus in the Morning Dew
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Breaking Ground on a Community Garden
As I jumped into Love Sown a couple months ago, my interest in merely reporting on our family’s garden quickly expanded to wanting to share project ideas, inspire people to get a little dirty and encourage even the brownest thumbs to try their hands at growing food. Then, this opportunity to start a community garden at a school in our neighborhood came along. In my mind, this is exactly what urban farming should be about – sharing knowledge and resources…
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Discovery: The Successes Not Our Own
Sometimes the biggest successes in our yards are not our own – such as those things we have left behind in the grass (and weeds) that take root … Oregano volunteers in the lawn … or those which we dug up from our parents’ homes planted in a pot, watched die and planted in the ground thinking all hope was lost… Purple shamrock blossoms … or those gifted from our friends’ parents’ homes (which may or may not have come…
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Bok Bok
We visited family in Virginia over the weekend. My brother has a coop with six chickens. He and my sister-in-law hatched two of them and purchased four others. They are giving some away to friends. The weekend the first two hatched, our family, which is spread across several states, all eagerly awaited pictures and videos on Facebook with as much excitement as if we were getting some new nieces. The Man-child enjoyed tossing seed into the coop and watching my…
