A few years in to having a several types of vegetable gardens, I’ve learned what are the easiest, lowest-maintenance, highest-reward veggies to grow, no matter your space – raised beds, right in the ground, even small-space container gardens.
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Currently, we have the floors of our kitchen and our TV room painted. Here is what our kitchen floor looks like now:
Three things led me to try DIY organic weed killers: I didn’t want my chickens, who free range, to eat pesticides, I didn’t want my toddlers, who play everywhere and put even the most unexpected things in their mouths to be exposed to pesticides, and I hate (HATE) pulling weeds by hand.
We are lucky to have a number of historical sources about our home. One important piece of history that you don’t hear about often in school with regard to New England was that some farm owners, including the family that originally built and lived in our house, owned slaves.
With an old house, you get a lot of small, single-purpose rooms. Upstairs in our house we have two bedrooms, and outside of the bedroom sits this small sitting room. In the 18th century, this would have been used as a third bedroom or the informal living room. It has a fireplace on the same stack as the fireplace in the keeping room, and being upstairs, it would have retained warmth during the day. I decided to make it a cozy dual-purpose room to read with our kids, but have a place for an extra guest to sleep when we have multiple visitors.
We’re in the process of transitioning our two year old to a big-kid bed (which is just going to be her crib with a toddler rail). She’s a teeny tiny peanut so we’ve been able to avoid it so far, but now she’s getting close to being able to climb out of her crib so it’s time.
Garlic is possibly the easiest, and certainly one of the most rewarding, items I grow in the garden. Here’s how to do it yourself …
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One of our next big projects? Designing a replacement for our super sad, falling-off-the-side-of-the-house outdoor kitchen …
One of my favorite things is seeing vintage items other folks found, so I wanted to share with you today some of my vintage finds, and where I found them – along with prices! As an avowed cheapskate, I’m always so curious about what people paid for vintage things, as there’s such a range …
Purslane is a weed, and grows like a weed, meaning that we have a ton of it in our garden starting in early June. I love it, but the rest of my family, to put it mildly, does not. So most of my purslane prep involves quick and easy purslane salads or lunches that I can make quickly for myself.