I have a confession to make. You know how some kids, to be truthful some adults, think that their meat comes in those little plastic wrapped packages from the store? On some level, they know that the meat they are buying was once a live animal and that someone cared...
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...
I am so excited to announce that we have planted the first fruit tree on the Homestead! I know you fellow homesteaders know that kind of weird excitement I am talking about. The kind that makes you want to tell everyone you meet that day about your new addition. The...
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...
