Lettuce is one of my favorite crops to grow. It does really well for most of the year in our relatively cool climate and there isn’t really much to planting and caring for it. We do what is called high-density planting for our leafy greens. Rather than trying to space them out according to the …
Hello Friends! It’s been a good long while since I’ve posted an article. We have been SO incredibly busy on our little homestead and this new homeschooling, work from home routine, and the general weirdness happening now, has taken some getting used to. So I thought I’d take some time and let you all in …
Yesterday morning I spent two hours sanitizing my groceries. Scrubbing my produce in the sink with soap, whilst singing the ABC’s about 50 times and wiping down my plastic, tin, and cardboard items with Lysol wipes, a’la this video from YouTube. We live in a weird time man. Don’t get me wrong, I know some …
Tomorrow starts our first day of homeschooling. I guess I had kind of always wanted to home school our kids, I just didn’t imagine it would be under these circumstances… The Corona virus has caused the closure of all of our Michigan K-12 schools for the next three weeks. My guess is, based on the …
This year we’ve been lucky enough to have pretty decent luck growing bell peppers. The plants have been nice and healthy, and very productive thanks in part to the very wet spring and warm summer we had this year in Michigan. We practice a yearly crop rotation in our raised beds, incorporate our own compost …
Whether your buy a bunch of sweet corn at the local farmer’s/supermarket, grow it in your own backyard, or fail miserably at growing it in your own backyard and end up getting some from your uncle, (Thanks Greg!) you’ll want to make certain you’ve got a surefire way of preserving that delicious bounty this summer. …
