Nov 5th 2020
Traditions are beliefs, behaviors or activities that are passed-on from generation to generation. Traditions define us and differentiate us as a family, community, region, nation or faith. Most nat…
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Oct 29th 2020
A friend of ours sent an email to us yesterday with this question: “I'm trying to grow cilantro in one of your black thingies and the seeds won't germinate. Are the boxes good for growing herbs”?Sh…
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Oct 22nd 2020
I guess Peg and I are lucky. Neither of us have ever noted any discomfort, bloating, or gastric distress from eating wheat. Perhaps our microbiomes, after 2 years of battling a whole host of intest…
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Jul 31st 2020
Summer has been a blur. Between gardening, a sailboat project, entertaining, and fishing, blog posting has been neglected. But I got back on-board yesterday by shooting and uploading a video on growin…
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Jun 18th 2020
Last summer I constructed a plywood bender for making 42" wide garden hoops, to fit inside of our raised beds. That video has over 30,000 views, with some rather heated discussion about using metal vs…
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May 10th 2020
We have ten 8' raised beds filled and useable right now. I just built 5 more of them, which is the subject of our latest video. I also wrote a detailed DIY manual, which is available for only $5, righ…
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Apr 24th 2020
I can feel the momentum swinging, and I'm not even a farmer. Not many years ago, no-till practices were the talk of "Greenie" city folks who wanted to dabble in farming. Now, it is showing up regularl…
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Apr 17th 2020
It was more than a decade ago that Peg and I hatched the idea to start a business called: "Summer Kitchen Supplies". Back then we were putting up much of our own food-both produce and meat-…
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Apr 15th 2020
I don't recall the last time we started our pepper and tomato seeds indoors; I bet it's been decades. I built a few cedar cold frames, that were fitted with grow cables secured to hardware cloth, whic…
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Apr 9th 2020
Turn your kitchen into a French Patisserie with the kids, and turn-out some of the best croissants ever. As long as we are spending time indoors, and spring is coming in fits and starts, this is a fun…
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Mar 23rd 2020
Had somebody told me, several years ago, that all I needed to do was to watch a half hour video to learn how to make this pizza, I would have saved myself years of trial and error. By "error", I mean…
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Mar 13th 2020
I was recently told I could not apply to vend our bottom-watering planters (since they are not home-made), or sell planters that have herbs or greens already growing in them-because I have dabbled in…
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