Category Archives: Happenings

What’s Happening? Seedlings are still on sale – available for your gardens: melons, Summer and Winter squashes, tomato seedlings are up, peppers, calendula, borage, cukes, marigolds but it’s official, the early cabbages bit the dust. Oh well, I’ll try again for succession cabbages. New Summer Syrups – Lilac and Honeysuckle, and they are both certainlyContinue reading “Tuesday on the Homestead”

My schedule is a bit off this week. I keep missing or losing some days in there somewhere. It is lush and green up here right now. There have been some apple blossoms (it’s an off year, so sparingly on the old trees and a few of the youngbloods are trying out their petal power).Continue reading “It’s Tuesday, right?”

And just like that we move into Tuesday Happenings…I know, we’re pretty blog sporadic lately – lots of stuff going on. The weather has been kind to us lately and much is getting done. A new cold frame built, fencing for the espaliered white grapes, blackberry lanes, a new elderberry patch cleaned out and plantedContinue reading “Busy Busy Busy Beeeees…”

What is happening on this little plot of land? Mostly, our list of things to get done outpaces our getting things actually done but such is this life. I’m getting excited about setting up some Dandelion Wine, Flower Syrups, and Foraged Kimchi. I’m getting seedlings ready for sale and ready to plant. Josh is buildingContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings”

Peas, Onions, Carrots, Beets, and Potatoes are in! Yay, Spring! (Alright, not all of the potatoes are in – I have too many, as usual, mostly in the fingerling department so we’ll be doing those in bags and buckets). I’d like to find a good permanent bed for the parsnips and get the smaller raisedContinue reading “Rock Bottom Happenings”

Sometimes it’s the little things that keep us going, giving us considered pause and dare I say hope- like mini care packages and handmade postcards, and long waited for squash shoots (I had given up on them!) and spring bulbs popping up, like cleaning out the garage and working on new garden beds. Is itContinue reading “Happenings and Thinking Links”

Somehow Tuesday feels like a good day to check in with what’s going on around here – Monday is too aggressive about it, and Wednesday is already the halfway point to other plans, Tuesday is the sweet spot. It’s encouraging – the week is progressing, things are getting done, and there is even a bitContinue reading “the Haps”

Incremental happenings – one tiny step at a time!  Thanks to our beautiful and brilliant community of friends, family, and subscribers – we are slowly getting up to speed. Deliveries are starting to re-happen to the Portland area, which is great! Bready bits, kimchi, seed packets, jams & syrup – fantastic! I’m glad we canContinue reading “Happenings”

I love growing things. I’m no expert, by any means, but I have always had a love affair with dirt, soil, earth and the magick that springs forth. When I was a kid, we had a garden, and chickens (and turkeys and rabbits) but I lived on a steep sloping hill with just a bitContinue reading “Happenings: Seed Starters”