Firesign Farm

As our cold weather season approaches, the warm weather crops must be harvested before the first frost. Dealing with the resulting glut of f...

I'm not a big television watcher. I'm bored by most programming today - I'd just as soon have music as my "background noise...

I didn't get many jalapeno peppers this year. Summer was late, and then it never did get really hot this year (plus, our visiting Bambi ...

When I was a kid, I asked Santa for a ChemLab one Christmas - back then, a toy laboratory in a tri-fold tin box. The best part, for me, was ...

The weather was absolutely gorgeous this past weekend, and both of us got the chance to be out enjoying it. After Labor Day, when the kids h...

I can't believe how time slips away between posts here. I've been doing a lot of seasonal chores, and some kitchen experimenting, an...

I love being in the outdoors, and camping (speaking of camping, for my most recent turn to post on the Simple Green Frugal Co-op , I wrote a...

We've caught sight of our deer visitor a few times now. I first saw him when I went out to shut up the chicken coop, just before full-on...

They say a garden is always greenest in January - in your imagination, while paging through those beautiful garden catalogs. The reality tho...

Junior chicken, so named because she looks just like her mother, Missy (so does Baldy, if it hadn't been for the unfortunate head peckin...

The Sugar Snap pea plants have shriveled in the heat, without ever allowing any of the few picked to make it into the house. I can't see...

I really need to get better organized with my garden seed storage - not the actual storing of the seeds, but seed expiration dates. I know s...

My Soroptimists Club is working a booth at a local Chili Cookoff this weekend, and since it's the Fourth of July we're going with a ...

Working for the Census for the past couple of months has given me a bit extra discretionary income. I decided to use some of it to catch up ...

Aries took the past week off as a vacation week, and having him around full-time always messes up my schedule somewhat. Plus, he had project...

I spoke too soon, bragging about being able to grow such beautiful tulips earlier this Spring. About a week ago, I noticed some dirt thrown...

Once we got the chicken coop moved, the next step was to move the garden fence farther out both to the north and south. Moving it south mean...

The calendar says it's planting time. The day-length does too (we went up to Tahoe for dinner with some friends a week ago, and even tho...

I've had my vegetable garden laid out in four freeform "S"-shaped beds for years. The long horizontal sections work as a terra...

You do have your towel with you, don't you?