A Handmade Life

One of the tricky bits of being a maniacal gardener is the tendency to over-do it.  I love gardening and so I tend not to notice when I am o...

Sometime earlier I mentioned that I planted our potatoes in bins (you can see earlier photos here and here ) so that they wouldn't use ...

Many an autumn afternoon used to be whiled away doing nature crafts with my boys.  These days they're not quite as interested as they us...

The last two weeks have been a blur of finishing up the garden, building compost, canning, celebrating and all sorts of other things.  I am ...

Awhile back I mentioned a new found love for cover crops.  I'm so thrilled to be able to get the chance to experiment and learn more ab...

Chickweed is a pretty unassuming plant.  It can hide in the garden beneath other plants without drawing any attention to itself. I was looki...

We've been doing our usual thing for this time of year - squirreling away as much food and harvest goodness as we possibly can.  Yeste...