When the perennial borders do well, so do the American goldfinches. This year is no exception.
Photo by Judith Hausman Bright nasturtium flowers add an extra dose of color to this rice salad. Even though the sun is setting earlier, the temperature of the water is cooling, and some 2012 garden favorites are already a memory, there’s still a riot of color in the garden. We’re picking pink and yellow tomatoes, […]
Use leftover fabric scraps to make quilt-inspired placemats.
Repurpose unusable barrels into garden containers to accent your farm landscape.
Photo by Audrey Pavia Milagro and Rio, the strawberry killers. Early last summer, my roommate Lisa planted a garden. Using four of the large terra cotta pots that were sitting empty on my patio, she started peppers, tomatoes and strawberries. She diligently watered the seedlings every day and, before long, the bright California sun brought […]
Bring the outdoors in with this craft that’s mingles form and function.
Flat peaches, or Saturn peaches, are becoming more popular, but not for reasons you might think.
In May, I purchased a praying-mantis egg case from a local nursery and put it out into the garden. A few weeks later, the eggs hatched, and initially, several hundred baby praying mantises were clinging to my plants.
Minimize labor costs and maximize your strawberry patch's place on the farm by starting a strawberry U-pick operation.
In our quest to "cook out of the processed box” in our farmstead kitchen, we’re always aiming to buy one less item off the grocery shelf and instead make a better-quality and typically more frugal version with our pantry staples.
Photo by Judith Hausman Add your own spin to this basil-tomato quick bread by substituting the basil with your favorite herb. There are never too many tomatoes, are there? Still, we sure have a lot of them. To make them easier to deal with and before they go bad, I often just trim and toss […]
Photo by Audrey Pavia My three baby chicks when they were still little, peeking out from momma’s breast. I was outside this morning doing chores when I looked over at the lawn where my flock of chickens was gathered. For a second, I couldn’t tell the hens from the pullets. That’s when I realized that […]
