Boston Style Baked Beans

This week I am continuing my quest to eradicate all processed food from the house with a simple-yet-hearty recipe for Boston-style baked beans.   I have been searching for recipes that are easy and healthy. I need to be able to make them in bulk and store them. I don’t want to sacrifice the meals…

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Flickr of Inspiration – Ginger

Nepal 2572, 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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Monday’s Guests – 10 Easy Fruit-Bearing Trees

Today’s guest post was submitted by Keith Howard of Lawn Care Service. You can see his original post here. There are some other great articles on that site as well, including 10 Unusual Items to Grow in Your Garden. ———————————————————————-  Photo by Rachel Brinkerhoff  If you have a back yard large enough to…

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Weekend Chores – Finally Planting Out

We’ve got quite a few things to do this weekend. We’ll see how far we’ll get. A lot of our Curcubits are up in their pots and need to be transplanted out. Pamina was kind enough to give us some hot pepper seedlings. We’ll be planting them out this weekend as well.  Irrigation! The lines…

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Perspective

I’m always looking for a good perspective to take photos of the progress of our yard. Unfortunately, in the height of summer, most perspectives are hidden by tall growing plants.Right now the photos work but eventually the corn that’s popping up will completely block any decent views from the above shot. I don’t know why…

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Out Among the Bees

The weekend before last we got our first package of bees. We chose to go with Carniolans our first go because they are said to be more docile. The queen package didn’t have candy in it, just a cork so we chose to just leave her in the cage for several days to make sure…

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Flickr of Inspiration – Hot Peppers

Nepal 2564, 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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Wow!

With this weekend over with I can now get a bit more space to breathe. However, I am sad it’s passed. Saturday was a whirlwind. 5:30am – goat milking time – came much too quickly. We were out of the house by 8am to go help the Vallejo People’s Garden set up for their Grand Opening Event….

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