Garden Realities: July
July was a great month for us this year. It just wasn't great for for my gardens. We had one family reunion at the beginning of the...
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Apartment Homesteaders in Salt Lake City
Shire Girl
Garden Realities: June
June has not been kind to my gardening goals this year. As you may recall I have just a few main threads to my garden this year: To grow...
Garden Realities: May
About once a month I like to check in on my garden and talk about how everything is progressing. I find that there's nothing more...
Plants to Save Seed from for Beginners
I've had a goal for a couple of years now to save as many of my own seeds as possible. I've been slowly increasing my skill year by...
The Bees are Gone
When I checked in on the bees last Saturday they were just gone. It happens sometimes. There's something they don't like about the hive,...
Adventures in Beekeeping
I've wanted to keep bees for a long time now. They were one of the earliest additions to my "homestead wish list", along with chickens...
The Great Garden Plan: 2016
I don't know how interesting you find posts like these, but dreaming about the things i'm going to grow is one of my favorite parts of...
A Few Flowers More
Spring flirts here in Salt Lake City. We'll get a warm day here, a lovely mild week there, and suddenly there will be snow and dreariness...
Sunflower Dreams
This last monday I harvested several bunches of sunflower heads from my plot in the community garden. They're a little green, so right...
Sustainable Alternatives To Shampoo
There is something of a movement going on right now against shampoo. It's unfortunately named "no-poo" but there are actually has some...
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