This year’s garden is amazing! All the soil additives and treatments have paid off amazingly! This is the purple bok choy, beet leaves, and peas that I harvested this morning for an Asian salad later today. The lettuce is still going strong, being shaded by the rutabaga and beet leaves. The potatoes are flowering, andContinue reading “New year, new garden”
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Harvested the deer potates today. (These are the ones the deer tend to kill off early by eathing all the leaves off. 🙄) For the fact they had a shortened grow time, this is a really good haul! Almost 2 lbs of potatoes, a lot of them perfect for boiling and roasting then making into potato salad! I’ll be planting sunflowers in their space. I also have the potato bags to harvest, but they are still going so I’ll wait till a week after the last leaf dies to harvest those.
Hostility Homegrown
One of the most wild things that I have been increasingly becoming aware of is the excessive xenophobia of our growers, not just in the US, but world wide. The xenophobia can be rooted in the ideas of “tradition”, racism, fear of “strangers” among other reasons, but the reaction is often hateful, threatening and can be downright terrifying.
The Farm of My Dreams
I have spent a couple years now thinking about my dream farm. What I will do, what I will grow, the animals I’ll keep and what I will do with the products of the farm, whether that be storing for personal use, or selling in various ways.
Goddess of Foxes 