An August frost snuck up on us this year. Not too surprising, we did have a frost warning on July 8th this summer, for goodness sake! With a...

The food cycle has finally reversed flow, there is more food coming into the house than we are able to eat... time to stock the pantry. With...

All told, out here on the East coast, this June was reported as the darkest June on record, ever. And for all of that cloud cover we accumul...

Salad greens are ready to harvest in the freezer-cold frames , and the soil is ready to be worked, despite the lingering snow-pack along th...

Wow, what a great discussion, thank you all for your honest thoughts and feelings, and your consideration of alternate views. We have regret...

ChicagoMike wrote a comment to the last post What we grow, and a slight digression , and it deserved a longer response than I could fit into...

Lisa L. asked if we could share what all we are growing in 2009. These are the food crops we are planting in the garden. We are also plantin...

This is what we get these days. We no longer get showers. When it rains, it really rains. Twice we have gotten a wheelbarrow of water in 24...

We woke up to a gorgeous frost late last week, the ice crystals were so thick it almost looked like snow. It was also my cue to bring in the...