Our first fish order for the pool pond included 40 mosquito fish and 11 shubunkin goldfish. After having so much fun watching them, we wanted more fish, so we ordered 24 more shubunkin goldfish. We now have 35 of them….
The flowers are really starting to bloom! Zinnias and oats. Ara’s first dahlia. Celosia. Marigold. Bachelor’s Button AKA Cornflower. Snapdragons and more in the background. Nasturtiums. Tulsi basil and Genovese basil. The Vego Garden is looking good. All these beds…
Those are the first bouquets for our first ever flower CSA addon! They have sunflowers, zinnias, yarrow, mint, oats and a few other things. Mr. Fangs was hanging out in the flower garden with us where we have this lovely…
In this post I show how we planted some summer crops and built trellises for them. Let’s begin with this eggplant that we started from seed on February 1. We potted them up in March to buy us more time….
A tree frog climbed onto the arm of Ara’s chair. They are surprisingly friendly! A nice crop of swiss chard for this week’s CSA shares. Carrots ready for harvest. Japanese taro in the bog filter. Worm bin, nasturtiums, tomatoes and…
As we harvest and beds open up, we immediately renovate the beds and plant them to new crops. We just planted these lettuces for salad mix where the spinach was. Some head lettuces where the turnips were. Basil and onions…
Today’s update comes to you in the form of a video. I walk through most of our production and talk about what’s growing, what’s coming up, what’s being harvested, walk through the flower garden, our new Vego garden and the…
Can this simple ecological filter keep our pool clean? We’re going to find out! A bog filter (also known as a wetland filter) uses a bed of gravel and plants to filter and clean water. As the water is pumped…
I harvested this REAL organic spinach while listening to a great Real Organic Podcast episode about how big corporate entities have corrupted the USDA Organic standards and how “organic” hydroponic berries are being grown and passed off as organic. When…
A beautiful crop of spinach is ready to harvest this week! This might be the nicest spinach we’ve ever grown. Our soil improves every season. Harvesting some huge celery plants! 🤤 Italian flat leaf parsley ready to harvest. Cilantro coming…