Although it is still a little cool out, we have begun planting for the 2025 garden season. Last weekend, Maggie planted peas, carrots,...

First Of The Season Asparagus Poking Through In The Garden Today is April 29th here in SE WI. I'm not sure we've ever had asparagus poke...

Older Seed Starts On Garden Shelves In Front of Window Some of our seed starts have gotten too big for their initial home. (We start our...

One project that I was able to squeeze in was inoculating some logs for shiitake mushrooms. I cut these logs back in December, so I only...

Four Bales of Last Year's Hay (Grass Really) - No Chemicals While we did get woodchips delivered last fall for the garden, I've been...

Although we had snow today, we have begun our garden for the year! One of the challenges of gardening year after year is that the chores...

With the new year comes a new garden plan. We have reached the point where the scars, trials, and tribulations from last year's garden...

We finally completed one of the hardest tasks of the year, which is getting the gardens ready for winter. Usually, we have this completed...

We are at the mid-point of closing down the garden for winter. We are spreading a giant piles of woodchips across the beds, mucking out...

As summer winds down, we will be taking stock of our Year of the Perennials. First up is our attempt at growing lavender. Like many of...

My neighbor gave me some tomatoes today and I'm looking forward to making tomato sandwiches as my main sustenance for the next week or so....

"Back to Eden" gardening is the long-term goal for our garden (my perspective). The purported benefits of the gardening method almost...

Last week, we harvested our garlic. We succession-plant bush beans, which was one of this weekend's tasks. The variety we plant mature in...

We have a few side projects going on this summer. These are fun little things we are trying on a small scale, to see how they may fit...

This picture of our garden was taken a week ago on July 6. We planted this garden between May 31 and June 7. With all of the rain we've...

Picking snow peas for the second time today (the first time was only 4 hours prior) reinforced some important life tools for me today. In...

At any one picking, we're not getting a "ton" at this point; however, we are having fun with what we are getting. Today, we picked Black...

The average precipitation for Richland County is about 5 inches. Last summer, we were lucky to have gotten an inch of rain in June, and...

I'm in the process of learning about all of the medicinal benefits of herbs and other greens. I've bought reference books that outline...

I picked our first round of garlic scapes this morning (there will be more). I need to find something new to do with them. ...