How to Rotate your Beds

B from the blog Epona Report asked a great question about how to rotate through your crops. Do you do a crop of fall veggies? Or do you just let everything go fallow over winter? I live in Florida, zone 8b, and I feel it just gets too hot too quickly for some of my…

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Monday’s Guests- Chalkboard Pots

Today’s guest post is a D.I.Y. from , Going Home to Roost, one of my favorite handmade life blogs.   Bonnie, the blogger of Going Home to Roost, “lives snuggled back in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina and gathers endless inspiration from living a simpler way of life.  Over the last seven years, she’s become a…

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Lemon Blueberry Scones

I’m a morning person. Always have been, since I was a little girl. Once the sun was up, so was I – tearing around the house like a maniac (or a herd of elephants, as my parents liked to describe it), and impatiently awaiting… …well, SOMETHING. I was sure something was about to happen. And…

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The Next Big Thing

Following last Saturday’s post on self sufficiency I have news to share with you all! But first I’m going to give you a little background. Our intentions when developing our property was that we wanted to produce all of our needed food. While this is a commendable ideal, it likely won’t happen as our lot…

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