The National Gardening Association has created a great website for parents and especially teachers to help get kids interested in learning about gardening – http://kidsgardening.org/. You can find all sorts of projects for kids to do which will help them learn about all aspects of gardening, from composting to collecting seeds. April is National Gardening […]

We’re not ready to start most of our seeds just yet but we will be in the coming weeks. We’ll definitely need to buy a lot more seeds as well since we have only a few special items at the moment. Gayle wrote a great article about starting seeds which included the comments on mix […]

I’ve subscribed to the feeds of another gardening website called You Grow Girl which has some great information. It’s written by a woman living in Canada who has a true urban garden on her rooftop. She posted a new article about selecting the right tomatoes for your garden and some of her favorites to grow […]

It’s official, we have mice in our outbuildings. When we moved in, there where plenty of trays of rat poison standing in the various outbuildings of the farm, which we promptly removed as we didn’t want the dog to eat it. We never found much evidence of an actual infestation when we first started work […]

Let’s face it not only does homegrown produce taste better, but there are more than a few good reasons to try to be as self reliant as possible: Cost: It costs mere pennies to grow your own produce. Good, fresh vegetables at the store are expensive and with the help of a greenhouse we can […]