GMO’s or diversity-rich seasonal foods?
In an effort to grow more of my own healthy veggies next summer, and in my constant efforts to live a more natural type of life, I went hunting for […]
Category Archives: Garden/Yard
Nesco food dehydrator
I had a food dehydrator for years, one with just an element and no fan. Used it only seldom for some tomatoes and hot peppers cos it took forever to work. Now I’m […]
Nature out my windows……
It snowed and the ground being covered makes it hard for the animals to find food. There’s a bird feeder at a side window where I spread some seed on […]
White Christmas!
Merry White Christmas to us here in Pennsylvania. Other parts of the country have much more snow than us, and this is enough for me. It is pretty, and the […]
Hey, squirrels gotta eat too!
MaChatte alerted me to the fact that something was going on outside! When she’s outside they’re afraid of her. But they seem to know it’s ok when she’s in the windows, and […]
A lovely old silver maple tree……….
A 50-year-old silver maple. It was here when I bought my house and for many years before. But in the last few years, some limbs got rough looking and had to be […]
Roughleaf dogwood
Last year my neighbor gave me a dogwood tree that was one stem about 6″ tall with a few scrawny leaves, still tight up against the stem. I didn’t know […]
Pizza in a Pot: a Community Sustainability Project
A wonderful project is happening in Shippensburg, Pa. Lizzie Bailey and the Cumberland Valley Grange wanted to do a project that will help local people learn to grow some of […]
Feed the Birds!
Other than providing a big screen TV for my cat, I feed the birds in the winter because they need some help! Bird metabolism moves so fast that they have […]
Sarasin's thoughts....... 