Gardening

Wild America in Our Own Backyard

December 5, 2011

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…

August 4, 2011

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!

February 11, 2011

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!

November 15, 2010

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…

August 25, 2010

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 [...]

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Let's Get All Top Chef Up In Here!

August 2, 2010

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!

July 17, 2010

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!

July 8, 2010

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!

June 12, 2010

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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