After we expanded the Chicken Field last year, we had talked about planting potatoes. Originally we thought we might do it last spring but couldn’t get the garden prepared in time. This year it seemed the way was made for it to happen so a few weeks ago we began preparing rows. Then just the…
Years ago we were seeing a natural practitioner when I had an infection. He handed me a bottle of Black Spanish Radish and nodded his head when I looked on the back and it read “Ingredients: Black Spanish Radish”. So it’s just radishes? A couple dozen of those little tablets and a few days later…
Late last week I walked away from the garden with dirt under my fingernails for the first time in months. It was just a couple of new microgreens beds we planted in cilantro, kale, and lettuce but somehow it felt significant. As did finally starting those broccoli seeds this week. And then we started on…
About a month ago I got out our seed catalogs, a few sheets of paper and a pencil and started scribbling garden ideas. How can we try to grow more food, we’ve been asking ourselves, as the years roll on and the number (and size) of the bellies we fill is ever expanding. So I…
