Grow Your Own Food Right Where You Are!
Let’s face it growing your own food can be a mystery, especially if you have never done it before. My passion is to show you how to grow your own fresh organic groceries right where you are!
My kids nor I will ever forget the summer of yellow squash. It was the first year I had planted at the community garden and I had no idea that, unless I was planning to peddle squash on the street corner, I had no business planting so many plants! Oh, to flashback to...
When I was at my first year at the community garden, one of the good pieces of advice I got was to plant what your family likes to eat. Too bad you can't grow pizza! Any hoo, I thought; beans. I used beans, pinto mostly, every week and knew my kids liked them. I also...
We are enjoying FALL! I have been posting less because I have been gardening more. Woo hoo! The hotter than Hades period ending, means that our second season of gardening in Dallas, Texas, is well underway. We are harvesting a lot of zucchini and yellow squash...
My Sister has the most beautiful cactus garden ever. I guess she got the make everything pretty with flowers gene and I got the grow food gene. No seriously, when we put our heads together we make a good team. The fruit on my sister's prickly pear cactus was just...
Down here Basil is one of the shining stars of the Fall garden. It is important to turn this fragrant herb into useful food before it really starts to bloom in order to take advantage of it's full flavor. I love basil pesto. When I really love it, is in the middle of...
This post is definitely a proud moment of a goal reached. I had set a goal for myself to go from the decision to raise rabbits for meat all the way to the stew pot. On Labor Day weekend we had a feast with family and friends to enjoy the "meats" of our labor. I...
Hi there, my name is Anne-Marie, but my friends call me Dash from the -dash- in my name. My homestead journey started out with one prayer. “Please help me get nutritious, organic food for my family.” Wow, I was surprised how God went about answering that prayer! …..Read More!