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Here's my new favorite blog-- Little House in the Suburbs . It's chock full of recipes and instructions for homesteading and craft projects: knitting, soap-making, candle-making, recipes, gardening projects, homemade gifts and toys, etc. The only Read More...
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If you have basil growing, and frost hasn't yet hit, it's time to harvest it and make pesto for freezing or immediate use. Here's the recipe I used. I did 3 double batches, each filled one of my medium-sized jars. I had planted three basil Read More...
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This looks like a great resource. I ordered mine today. Check it out: http://learningherbs.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/everything-unde.html Read More...
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I've found a great website called Learning Herbs . They have a fun board game called Wildcraft, which is a great way for the family to learn which herbs you would apply to help which ailments. The kids really cracked up when they got "diarrhea" Read More...
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This may come as no surprise to some, but just recently I've noticed that my energy fluctuations, over an entire year, move in sync with the sun. My energy runs pretty high in May and June, right before the longest day of the year (Summer Solstice--June Read More...
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My friend pointed out to me, growing as a weed in my backyard, the plant called Common Plantain. I had never noticed it before. But it turns out that it is edible (the young leaves in salads or in soups and casseroles), and that it has many various medicinal Read More...
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Recommended by a friend who knows me well, I've been getting episodes of BBC's The Good Neighbors from Netflix and watching it with my daughter. We're both enjoying it tremendously. I believe this show aired in the 70's. It's about Read More...
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Our back yard is a blank slate of weeds for us to design and reinvent. Last summer I played with making a garden maze. This summer I want to start working on our permanent plans--we're wanting to grow a forest garden, with lots of dwarf fruit trees Read More...
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Mark out the outline of the bed, after you’ve figured it out on paper. You can lay out some of the loose bricks as the outline. Using a trowel or a narrow spade, carefully dig a 2-3” trench about the width of the bricks, following the outline Read More...
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I posted before about eating our wild spinach weeds (commonly called Prostrate Pigweed). We’ve gotten so much rain lately I’ve been weeding and eating the pigweed almost every evening for supper, just to keep up with them! Most of the time I wash, chop Read More...
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I’ve been reading and learning about edible landscaping lately. My goal is to grow as much of our own food as I can in our small urban yard. But my husband and I also want the front to look nice, and I have many favorite flowers I’ll want mixed in with Read More...
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Speaking of weeds, I noticed a very aggressive little weed popping up everywhere in my new garden beds. Since weeding them all would be an incredible amount of work, I researched it instead and discovered that it is edible! Commonly called Prostrate Pigweed Read More...
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My love for the Middle Ages and adventure comes out in just about everything I do. For example, this summer I decided to plant some vegetable garden beds out back. But why just make several squared plots, when I can design those plots into a maze? So Read More...
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