If You Can’t Beat ‘Em…

Posted July 27th, 2011 by & filed under gardening.

This summer can go hang. The extreme heat of the past couple of weeks has put a noticeable strain on a lot of vegetables in

Baltimore: A Weekend in Pictures

Posted July 21st, 2011 by .

Last weekend the boyfriend and I ventured down to my hometown of Baltimore, MD to visit my mother who just celebrated her birthday. While we

I Need You In My Life!

Posted July 8th, 2011 by .

Looks like I'll be taking a workshop this Summer or Fall on working with Oxen. Perhaps next Spring I'll have some calves of my

A Day of Deeds

Posted June 14th, 2011 by .

Yesterday was just one of those days where the other side of this sort of lifestyle really gets to you. The part with the unpleasantries,

Dinner?

Posted June 9th, 2011 by .

(Photo by Daniel Pippenger) This Cornish Cross hen was brought into a nearby high school by a student as a joke and subsequently escaped

Great Video on Pruning Tomatoes!

Posted June 3rd, 2011 by .

My tomatoes have started growing like gangbusters so I've begun pinching off suckers and pruning. I show this video about the topic in some of

Garden Update!

Posted June 3rd, 2011 by .

Considering how hands-off I've been this season, what with me travelling to the farm every week, our garden here at Jewel Street Paradise is faring