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Large Floral Wall Mural at Heritage Park
I had a blast painting this large floral wall mural at Heritage Park with the Henry County Master Gardeners this month! The Master Gardeners reached out to me recently to create a community mural for the pollinator garden they’re creating next to the Nolan House. This piece of artwork I had illustrated for another call…
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Germinating Seeds Indoors Using an Instapot with No Yogurt Setting
Disappointing update: germinating seeds indoors using the InstaPot with no yogurt setting was not a success for me. Days later, the bell pepper babies pictured here were still the only sprouts that appeared. Still, the instructions stay here for you to see what didn’t work and maybe try another way. I’d love to hear if…
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I Can’t Unsee This In My Garden.
Every year I set aside budget to add more perennials and bulbs to our garden beds; they come back every year, and I’m envisioning this just full lush flower garden everywhere around our home.
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Gardening Book: A Blessing of Toads by Sharon Lovejoy
I read another great gardening book I had picked up at the library over the past few weeks – A Blessing of Toads by Sharon Lovejoy. Between this book and the last one I read, I am super pumped to start planning our garden for spring. One thing that really spoke to me about this group…
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What we’re growing
Farmy orchard success, clockwise from top left: lemons, orange, lime, birthday tangerine tree from my brother in law Chris and his new wife Cari! We were a little bummed that our peach trees didn’t fare better, but we’ll try again in a drier area of our land.
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Chickens Hittin’ the Hay
The first time our new chickens went outside of the coop, they all went over to this big pine tree. At the end of the day when it was time for them to get back in the coop, it took Jenn and I 45 minutes to collect all these cluckers! I told myself I was…
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Dishin’ Up the Dirt. The Garden Dirt.
Work has been blissfully, rear end-kickingly, busy, and the weekends have been the same! We’re in full-tilt get ready for spring planting mode in the garden. We recently had to buy dirt online, and if all goes well we’ll be putting seedlings in the ground this weekend! You’ll note from the pictures, Phil spent pretty…
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Wild America in Our Own Backyard
Recently, I went out to the backyard for something and was greeted with an unexpected visitor just hanging out on our lawn. The second I came out the door he booked it, making haste for the wall. But instead of hopping it and running off, he just hung out. Watching me. But more importantly, watching…
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We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat…
If you’ve kept up with us on Twitter, you know we had a massive gardening day last week. It left us with tons of fresh produce strewn across the table on our back porch, and a day full of food preservation. We froze food, we dehydrated, we canned. And we were STILL left with three…
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Seedlings Goin’ Crazy!
Check it out, our seedlings are doing awesome! Hoping we’ll actually get pumpkins this year, and not just a huge viney plant with no fruit!
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Let’s Get Quichey!
Love that Real Simple cookbook Josh’s mom Carole gave us – here’s the quiche I made for dinner! What’s neat about this dish is it was made up of lots of stuff we grew ourselves. The onions, basil, and eggs all came from our backyard garden, and holy cow this thing was delicious! We had this…
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The Continued Adventures in Backyard Chicken Ownership…
Yesterday Josh walks into our office and says what no chicken owner wants to hear: “We’re missing a chicken.” Ummmm WHAT?!?! How are we missing a chicken?! I mean, last fall I saw a hawk hanging around our backyard cuz he was looking for a chicken dinner, but that was because our dog was in…
