Exploring the subtleties of homesteading in an unlikely way
As you may remember, my 2016 garden was pretty much a failure. (You can read about it here.) I only managed to harvest one small meal’s worth of okra. There were a lot of factors that played into my failure, not the least of which was my own lack of attention to my garden’s needs. But! I do not feel… Read More
Turns out I don’t have much of a green thumb. All of the planning, money, work, and stress and we managed to get 3 black bean pods, 2 pinto bean pods, and 1 small serving of okra. Jealous of my fresh food plethora, aren’t you? To be fair, I had basil but didn’t harvest it because I thought it was… Read More
Here it is August and I had really hoped to be drowning in produce. Cooking, canning, freezing, preserving, even giving away fresh produce that we grew in our garden boxes. Ok, I at least wanted to cook ONE meal of freshly grown foods. To date I have harvested a total of 5 bean pods: 2 black beans and 3 pinto… Read More
