Perfect Spring Quiche with Asparagus
I am sitting here at the beginning of January, dreaming of spring gardens as I slowly flip through my gardening books and seed catalogs. It's slightly masochistic of me but I can't help myself. The spring garden and the tender greens make me so happy. So I thought I...
How to Start Homesteading
So you're interested in homesteading. But where do you start? Should you buy some land, buy a cow, start a farmstand, build a barn, plant a field of corn; there are too many choices, help! Calm, the key is starting small and then building up as you have time, money,...
How to Garden with Young Children
Gardening with young children can be a mixed bag of experiences. Initially capturing their interest in gardening is fairly easy, especially since gardening involves dirt, getting messy, insects, worms, the outdoors, and/or water. But keeping that interest alive...
Cold Climate Vegetable Gardening
I love to garden, my life is just plain better when I am playing with dirt. The colors textures and variety of a garden are a balm to my soul. If I was ever going to be an artist then the soil would be my canvas and the plants my medium. Okay, you all have the idea, I...
Harvest Calendar
Another harvest season is almost behind me. Within a few weeks, it will start snowing here in Fairbanks, snowing and sticking. Every year I wonder what happened to spring, summer, and fall? In Fairbanks, the snow is usually gone around the first week of May and it...
My Casual Garden
One of my many goals in life is to someday raise all my own food for my family, vegetables and meat both, or at least as much as I can. I really don't see olive trees growing in Fairbanks anytime soon but, hey you never know. In the meantime, I try not to be too hard...
All About Rhubarb
Rhubarb is one of the many exciting signs of spring, a welcome burst of color in an otherwise barren post winter landscape. Rhubarb is the first edible plant that grows on our farm. As the hardy perennial pushes its way through the soil before the forsythia blooms, my...
Preserving Your Garlic Harvest
Garlic is a must in my kitchen and in my garden. Garlic has a very long growing season, about 7 months from planting to summer harvest. That's a very long investment for one food crop so I want to make sure that my harvest is preserved so it will last the longest...
How to Grow Basil – Everything You Need To Know
 Basil makes me happy. It's amazing how one little plant can create a giddy summertime feel in me. Basil to me, is a little bit of a hot summer day followed by drinks on the porch in the evening. Basil is present in almost...
How to Grow the Best Garlic
Garlic (Allium sativum) is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world and has been highly valued throughout the ages as a culinary spice. Garlic is a hardy perennial belonging to the amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae); other members of this family include...
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~ Jessica & April
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