I realize I haven’t written on some of our homesteading activities in a while. We’ve been continuing along with our homesteading fun, including Robert’s latest love….pickling. But pickling will have to wait for another time. Today I want to talk a little bit about our adventures in composting. It’s easier than you think!
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Posts Tagged ‘gardening’
13 Oct
Compost Fun
13 Aug
Garden Party
Here are the long awaited pictures of our garden, planted on our anniversary. My how it’s grown! No, the lettuce has not mutated into mini-trees; we’re letting two of the lettuce plants go to seed so we can use the seeds for next season. I couldn’t believe that lettuce could grow so tall! When it [...]
6 Aug
Walking the Talk…As Well As We Can
I’ve gotten a few questions about the status of some of the things I’ve posted about, so here’s a quick update:
The Garden: The garden is doing great! We’ve been harvesting lettuce for our own salads and really loving it. We’ve let a couple of stalks bolt so they can go to seed–hopefully we’ll be able [...]
4 Aug
Wasted Potential
I am proud to admit that one of the mottoes that Rob and I have begun to live by is to try to leave each place we go to (visit, live, etc) a little better than when we first arrived. Our little garden is an example of this: luckily we saw beautiful potential within that [...]
25 Jul
“Married to Amazement”
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms…
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
-Mary Oliver
Today my wonderful family by marriage and I went frolicking through the beautiful countryside of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I found [...]
24 Jul
Fiddle finagling and farm frenzy
So I pulled out my fiddle this morning to practice, and BOING! My G string, the lowest string, broke. Practice postponed.
This gave me a great excuse to restring both that string and the D string, completing my restringing since nabbing the fiddle at the Pico Blvd. garage sale. I can’t tell you how much better [...]
9 Jul
Co-Creators
One of my favorite teachings of the Catholic Church is that humans are made to be co-creators with God. This is not a teaching without controversy: on one extreme, some might argue that it gives humanity too much credit, while on the other side, we don’t get enough of it. Yet look a little closer: [...]
Just a joyful Catholic girl trying to live as simply and consciously and gratefully as possible in this beautiful, amazing world...and bringing as many as possible along for the ride.