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My mom comes out every year to help us braid onion My mom comes out every year to help us braid onions. We all have our jobs- hers is to prep very onion, take pictures of each kid with their onion strands and bring motivating snacks. 🥰
I think we can all agree that photographing my pre I think we can all agree that photographing my preserves in rainbow order was a very good use of my time.
We did it!! And yes… you can still pledge. New p We did it!! And yes… you can still pledge. New pledges go towards making a better book, printing in color, producing audio book etc. All backers of the printed book receive every “stretch goal” upgrade. Spread the word!
Wowza! We’re $500 away from hitting our funding Wowza! We’re $500 away from hitting our funding goal!! If you thought about backing this project please head on over to Kickstarter and push us over the finish line! (Link in profile)

Now… will somebody go find this boy a pair of pants?
Today is Hattie’s 10th birthday and she has plan Today is Hattie’s 10th birthday and she has plans a plenty! But I wanted to share this picture that I have taped to a cupboard in my kitchen because it clearly was Hattie’s 7th birthday, and I clearly stuck a candle in a carton of tag-alongs. Which weren’t even Girl Scout name brand- just the Aldi knock off. And that was good enough to get this smile from her and that smile from me.
Like the values it represents, Henry and the Great Like the values it represents, Henry and the Great Society is a book lost to time. Help us bring this story back into print for a new generation. Link in profile to preorder!
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Cleaning out the coop

  • June 26, 2014
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One of the steps in making my no-till garden plot earlier this Spring called for organic fertilizer over fresh compost. So I found myself in the fertilizer aisle of the…
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HoneyFest!

  • June 25, 2014
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Earlier this year when planning our summer calendar we thought it would be fun to have a beekeeping party along the same lines as our maple syrup tree tapping party.…
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Building raised bed gardens, step-by-step

  • June 20, 2014
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I normally wouldn’t detail how to build a raised bed garden—its just a box, after all. But when a friend of mine who is starting his own backyard garden asked…
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What blueberries have taught me

  • June 17, 2014
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I spent an afternoon with my brother Troy working on a renovation project at Art House North and we got to talking about farming and what we’ve been learning at…
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First cutting

  • June 11, 2014
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Hilling the potatoes

  • June 10, 2014
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There’s a step with gardening potatoes that involves mounding dirt up around the stems of the plants once they reach a certain height. For the life of me, I can’t…
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