Garden Planning and Planting

This weekend I am working in our vegetable and herb garden! This will be our fourth year with a garden, and I’m hoping this will be our best producing garden yet. Thanks to some advice from gardening friends and a very helpful book, “Carrots Love Tomatoes” by Louise Riotte, I planned it all out last [...]

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How to Reuse Tires in Your Garden

Rubber tires are the most difficult items to recycle and often end up in creeks, ditches or forest landfills across the country. Yes they can be recycled but sometimes there is a fee and if someone has several tires they might not want to pay this fee….

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How to Reuse Tires in Your Garden

Rubber tires are the most difficult items to recycle and often end up in creeks, ditches or forest landfills across the country. Yes they can be recycled but sometimes there is a fee and if someone has several tires they might not want to pay this fee….

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Mix Tape!

It’s been a long time since I wrote a Mix Tape post! Here’s some things that we’ve been up to that I haven’t shared with you guys, and what we’ve been enjoying lately… Watching We are hooked on The Americans! Have you watched it yet? Listening Been loving Depeche Mode’s “Delta Machine” and David Bowie’s [...]

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The Many Uses and Benefits of Epsom Salt

Epsom salt can be used in many different ways and has benefits for your health and your garden. I’ve shared with you how it can be used to create an amazing DIY Epsom Salt Face Scrub but did you know it can also be used in your hair? Yes your h…

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Upcyled Herb Garden and Home Made Dishwashing Detergent! (My late Earth Day post!)

UPCYCLED HERB GARDEN and HOME MADE DISHWASHING DETERGENT!

Happy (belated) Earth Day! I had the best intentions of publishing my blog yesterday as the contents seemed most fitting for Earth Day, but after a day of outdoor activities and “lights ou…

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Going Chuck Norris on my Garden

In which I lament my inability to grow a garden.

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Early (Red) October in My Garden

I took a stroll through the garden this morning, and while most of it is still green, every once in a while, a glimpse of crimson would catch my attention, like jewels scattered throughout the landscape. This is just the beginning; within the next couple of weeks, the birch and black locust will don their [...]

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Winner of the Troy-Bilt Cordless Cultivator!

Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway, both here on the blog and on Twitter. I wrote your names on slips of paper and put them in a basket, and my lovely assistant, (my 4 year old daughter, Elizabeth) chose a winner. And the winner is…. Cherina! Congrats, Cherina, and thanks again to everyone [...]

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Visit to Wolcott Mills Farm Learning Center

On Friday, we visited the Wolcott Mills Farm Learning Center. We’ve gone the last couple of years in the fall, and it’s always a big hit. Wolcott Mills is a Michigan State Park, and it consists of Wolcott Mill (a historic mill), the farm learning center, which is a working farm and has been for [...]

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