It’s dirty. It makes you sweat. It takes many months of hard work before you ever reap rewards. So is it really possible to enjoy gardening with kids? I think Robert Brault, an American operatic tenor who must create melodies in a garden as beautifully as he does on stage, answered that question well with a query of his own: “Why try to […]
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My father has spent seven decades–more than seventy summers–playing in the dirt. He’s taught my daughter and me a thing or two about keeping a garden and how to grow a garden from seeds. This year, the biggest lessons we’ve learned revolve around growing a garden from seeds. In New England, a gardener must know how
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I became the new owner of the most amazing old treasure at our library book sale. It’s dusty. It’s huge. It’s a tome of words… a dictionary printed in 1920. A daughter sauntered over to me as I perused the historical fiction table and announced I had to see THIS. She knew I’d love
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Fresh-picked strawberries are one of the best joys of summer. Three summers ago we planted our first strawberry plants. They were pathetic, but they survived. Then we moved them. Two times. Two autumns in a row.
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I just recently learned some pretty interesting facts about the Iris flower. DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links. ♥ When I think of Irises I think of a day when there were three guys. And three flowers. But no one told them which flower was for which guy. One white rose and two violet irises arrived that
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I’m learning to enjoy a lot of things these days that are… well… pretty unenjoyable. Cow patties, for example. They smell awful.
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Would you like to increase your home’s value? In your own eyes? In the eyes of your children? Surprisingly, all that’s sometimes needed is a little distance… There’s a story I love to tell about the house with golden windows. (I’m not just a crazy chicken lady and homesteading homeschool mom; I’m also a professional storyteller, so I
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“Homesteading” today is almost a flashy “new” thing. Some folks who are longing to be “homesteaders” are dreaming of saving money and purchasing all the right equipment. Planning what they can do to be “prepared” and “ready” to homestead. Doing it all “the right way” so when they purchase a homestead things go smoothly. But
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It’s been a tough week. One of my toughest in 46 years.
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Since my first child was born, I have treasured our Easter family traditions. Indeed, Easter is my favorite holiday. So it seemed odd to me that our farm’s one-year anniversary fell on Easter Sunday. Almost sacrilegious. Easter: my most treasured holiday, filled with priceless memories. A taped oven door, holding in the resurrection cookies (delicious, hollow,
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