Gardening

Is Gardening in Small Spaces Easier than in Your Backyard?

January 27, 2012 Gardening

At least in our situation, where we are constantly battling the elements and the forest, gardening in our apartment was much easier than gardening in the yard.

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Sustainable Farming with Meat and Vegetable CSAs: Week 8 Update

August 4, 2011 Gardening

This week I was most excited to see the tomatoes in addition to the green peppers. This means its almost SALSA TIME! I can’t wait. I can eat an entire jar of homemade salsa in one sitting, if I’m not careful.

We also have a ton of cucumbers with 8 this week and a few that carried over from last week. There is no way we could eat them all, so I’ve been looking up pickle recipes in the Ball Home Canning Guide and Putting Food By recipe books.

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Sustainable Farming with Meat and Vegetable CSAs: Week 5 – 7 Analysis

July 26, 2011 Gardening

We just stuffed our fridge with colored shapes of all kinds last night so here is a three week CSA update. We got another meat share this week too.

Finally we are getting more “solid” vegetables than leaves. Here’s how the cost comparison played out:

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