Building your own compost bin (part 1)
This afternoon we started what we figured would be a pretty short and simple process. Of course any time you’re doing something for the first time, it tends to take a bit longer and be slightly more challenging than you expected. But I think we still managed to come through with flying colors. My mom […]
Get kids interested in gardening
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 […]
Getting those seeds started
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 […]
Growing tomatoes in containers
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 […]
Time to call back up (aka more pests)
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 […]

