As promised, I am trying to stick with regular property tours. Rather than a video this time (which is time-intensive and I just couldn’t swing it with everything else going on), I’m posting some photos from around our place. It was kind of an overcast day and there is still a lot of cleanup to do, as you will see. Things aren’t really looking their best, but they soon will be. Hope you enjoy! Have a great week!…
i’m digging! raised bed #5
April 5, 2019This week I am digging a brand new raised bed! This one is 3′ x 12′ and still needs to be set into the garden area. The man and I built this one yesterday (well, mostly the man with a tiny bit of assistance from me). I will do a post soon describing how we made this. We already have #6 in the works! They are easy peasy to build. Have a great weekend!…
We are in the middle of large scale property cleanup and maintenance activities, and also building some new raised beds. So much is going on in fact, that the man and I each took three days off work to get it done. Typical spring cleaning on our acreage. Strenuous physical activity, leaving me not much time for deep thoughts this week. My only thoughts have been: man, we had a lot of big storms over the winter…so much debris to…
april garden activities
April 1, 2019April is one of the busiest months out in the garden and most of that has to do with (that dreaded) cleanup. Here is what we are working on this month. I pretty much did nothing garden-related during March but take care of seedlings growing indoors. We have a LOT of cleanup to do around the place. A bunch of branches came down over the winter. And all those tall ornamental grasses to cut back. We let them stand over…
i’m digging! brand new peonies
March 29, 2019This week I am digging the peony shoots that are coming up. These are ones that I divided from a group of them further out on the property and planted closer to the house in the fall. This post details that process. I am very happy that the transplant “took” (because it doesn’t always work out that way, right?!) and that I will have peonies blooming right in front of the house. If you’ve followed along for a while, you…
thoughtful thursday: caring for land and people
March 28, 2019When we set about creating a new garden, what are the first considerations we have? For me, it usually goes like this: how is this going to look (landscaping) and/or function (vegetable garden)? One of the takeaways from a book I am reading right now, “Creating Sanctuary” by Jessi Bloom, is the idea of ethical guidelines when it comes to the garden or other outdoor spaces we are developing. She relates it to the guidelines found in the permaculture approach.…
an old troll bridge in the middle of the woods..
March 25, 2019Sounds like a line from a Grimm’s fairy tale! It has just turned spring, and things are ramping up quickly around here. While we are gearing up to start the outdoor projects, I thought I’d show you something we did last summer out on the property. I’d meant to post about it at the time, but it just got away from me. So, no better time than the present. There is a quaint little bridge that leads from our house…
i’m digging! the first true leaves
March 22, 2019thoughtful thursday: land spirits
March 21, 2019I just began reading Creating Sanctuary by Jessi Bloom. According to Ms. Bloom, in order to begin creating our own sanctuary, we must start by “listening to the spirit already present in your own space.” She provides some steps to make it easy to do this. I love this and I’m going to give it a try here at my own place. Do you believe that places have a spirit? Maybe it is more that spaces evoke a specific feeling in…
