Yesterday was all about strawberry jam for me. (more)
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We’ve been busy this week harvesting onion, and especially garlic. The lows in the low 40s on Monday and Tuesday made us grateful again for the wood stove, but the cool mornings are already a distant memory. Summer’s here! This week we enjoyed what we now believe is our last fire of the season in the wood stove in our home. That marks for us the transition from winter to summer, and it provides a splendid signpost for a retrospective on the season. (more) Longleaf Breeze came with a one-acre pond; so far we’ve done little with it but admire its beauty.
This project has been continuing since the Fall of 2012, so you can understand how excited my brother Tom and I were when we finished our 16th and last raised bed Monday morning. (more) The title’s nothing to write home about, but we think what’s going on at Longleaf Breeze these days is pretty cool. (more) We had a delightful time visiting with gardeners in central Alabama yesterday as part of the “Lunch & Learn” program from the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. The topic was “Raised Beds and the Home Vegetable Garden,” and as usual when we present together, we learned as much as anyone who attended. (more) Let us acknowledge at the outset our gratitude for the progress we’ve made in learning to live with pests that might otherwise make growing our own food difficult. We worry less than most about deer, for example, because we work behind (so far, effective) deer fences. We worry less than most about insects because we carefully maintain a healthy balance of native insects that help keep the bad guys in check. (more) |
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