For the last couple of weeks… I have really started feeling like a farmer. My garden is pathetic.  Tiny little plants poking their heads from my rock hard clay, struggling to survival.  I got spoiled rotten working the community gardens, tilled and disced, composted and tilled again each year before myself and other locals came [...]

We have been so busy on our little homestead!  Our days are full of chickens, ducks, blackberry picking, gardening, drying and canning and freezing whatever we can find.  The kids have enjoyed swimming with the ducks, playing in the dirt, and running in tall tall grasses. It feels summer has FINALLY started and the garden [...]

Since we’ve made the move to our new home we have been SO BUSY! With the new baby, unpacking, organizing, checking out our new property and building our garden space and chicken coop…. our days are FULL. We walked the property over the first several days and selected our garden area. We chose an area [...]

Here are some photos taken by a friend of mine, Katie Louise. They are beautiful portraits of my children. Thank you Katie.

Today we had a picnic with the Huffs at Riverside Park. We had a wonderful time with fried chicken, green salad, fresh grapes and juice, followed by a space themed birthday cake for my little man. The kids played and ran and played and ran. As you can see, even Reya made some new friends. [...]

I’ve been tending my garden in the evenings just as the sun is setting and the day is cooling down. Unfortunately this is apparently when the mosquitoes come out for their daily feast. Sooooooo… I’ve researched and found some tips of dealing with the evil beasts and their miserable bites. To deter the pests in [...]

I am overjoyed! A kind neighbor tilled my garden today! He asked for nothing in return, and in fact has turned down my every offer so far to assist or repay him. I just met him at the garden last week, as we stood and looked sadly at our grassy plots, both looking forlorn and [...]

In front of our duplex, between the two front steps, is a little garden area. It is half ours, half our neighbors. I finally got around to digging up our half and turning it over. It took most of yesterday afternoon, and will be quite weed ridden for some time… but with some work it [...]

Tuesday night my husband was working late. So I bundled up the kids and took them for a walk to the lake. Grandma had recently got my son a Lightning McQueen Fishing kit and he was EAGER to try it out. Lake Sacagawea is our ONE refuge in this town. Three blocks of ghetto to [...]