Weekend Chores – So Busy!

I’m pretty sure we’re not getting any chores done this weekend. Why? Because we’ve got tons of stuff to do! Saturday morning we’ll be teaching two workshops on Garden Layout at the Vallejo People’s Garden Grand Opening and Gardening Festival. We’ll then be leaving that a bit early to go to a memorial service. We’ll…

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Overwhelmed Much?

 There is always something to do  This week I’ve been feeling overwhelmed. I’ll freely admit it. We’ve definitely got a lot on our plate right now, especially compared to just a year ago. Last April at this time we had the garden, 2 goats, and 11 chickens. I was working part-time and didn’t really have…

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Flickr of Inspiration – Fresh Food

Nepal 2563, originally uploaded by Poundyroundy. Stunning agriculture related photos from Nepal taken by Joshua Roundy whose wife, Kristin writes the blog Roundy Rounds.So go over and say hi! Joshua very kindly sent me links to his photos so stay tuned for more of his beautiful photos from Nepal!

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Sourdough Pancakes

Working at Ass O’Clock in the Morning (TM) has its good points and its bad points. I work a job that has rather…unconventional business hours, and our shifts are either 5:45am-1:45pm or 1pm-9pm. As a staunch diurnal, I have opted for the former of the two; trading those luscious hours of sleeping-in for the glory…

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Weekend Chores – All for Naught

You know when you do a ton of work only to find out that it was all a waste of time? Yeah, well I just found out that all the planting we did of squash, melons, watermelons, pumpkins and cucumbers was a waste of time. Something ate them. All of them. So this weekend will…

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Done! Almost.

Everything in the vegetable garden has been planted out except for the sweet potatoes. Well, the sweet potatoes and some more peppers and herbs that I’m waiting to germinate. Oh, and the small Pink Pearl apple tree we still need to plant. But everything else is in, even the celery starts which are quite small. I…

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Weekend Chores – Lots to do!

It’s a lovely weekend so hopefully we can get a bunch of stuff done. We’ve got peppers, corn and squash to plant. We’re still waiting on our new irrigation line, so redoing that will have to be postponed another weekend. But we also have a small apple tree to plant. Pamina gave me scions for…

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Reader Questions – New Feature!

I’m going to start doing reader questions as a formal topic now. Type your question in the Formspring box on the right. Just remember that it has limited characters so you’ll have to keep it somewhat short. So hit me with those questions! Our first question in our new series: Do you guys work outside…

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