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Let’s Get All Top Chef Up In Here!
A few weeks ago we started getting tons of tomatoes from the dozen or so plants we have growing in the back and front yards – to the point where I got all Martha Stewart and tried my hand at canning em so they wouldn’t go bad before we ate em! But then, as we…
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Our Chickens are Officially Laying Eggs!
AAAAAAA!!!! Our chickens have officially started laying eggs!! Josh found the first one hiding behind a bush in the backyard yesterday morning, and throughout the day two more eggs turned up behind a rosebush! We prompty cooked up the eggs into omelettes for breakfast this morning, and they were super-delicious! Click here to check out some pics…
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Backyard Garden Bounty!
We’ve started seeing awesome results from some of our backyard garden! Corn, jalepenos, onions, tomatoes, garlic – it’s all there and accounted for! I say awesome results from some of our backyard garden because other crops have not faired as well… Chickens, I’m looking in your direction when I say our strawberries and broccoli have…
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corn!
I need to take pics of all the awesomeness going on in our backyard right now for you guys! I’ll do that soon, but in the meantime check out how well our corn is growing!
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omlettes!
true story, every time i make omlettes they get a little prettier. can’t wait til this summer when our chickens are laying eggs!
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new garden pics and uhhh… we got chickens!
ok so some major updates in our backyard: our carrots got harvested last weekend! they definitely could have stayed in the ground longer, but we figured they wouldn’t get much longer since our planters are so shallow. so we’ll save carrots for another time (or big deep pots next year!), but these little guys were…
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hearts and laserbeams book report: the omnivore’s dilemma
ok so you know how i go back and forth in my book reports – i’ll do some books that are classic high school reading list pieces, some fun chick lit, some nonfiction brainy stuff… after reading ya ya’s in bloom, which i loved by the way, i really was needing something a little more…
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gardening with the calverts: month 1
ok so about a month ago, josh and i started a little veggie patch in our backyard using the book square foot gardening by mel bartholemew as a guide for our gardening shenanigans. here’s what it looked like when we first built the planter and got the dirt and seeds into it: and here’s what…
