Category Archives: Garden Life

Night Blooming Gardens

It’s not talked about a lot in the garden circles but there is a large range of plants that only bloom at night. This is special because some pollinators only come out at night, especially in desert environments. If you want to create a night blooming flower garden this is an easy 3’ x 5’ContinueContinue reading “Night Blooming Gardens”

How to Grow a Smoothy Garden

SAMSUNG CSC My family loves smoothies. But berry prices are so expensive! So, to combat the rising grocery budget I’ve created a garden full of smoothy ingredients! I harvest and freeze these items for fast smoothies any time of the year. A garden layout for smoothie ingredients is full of fruits, leafy greens, herbs, andContinueContinue reading “How to Grow a Smoothy Garden”

Homemade BBQ Sauce Recipe

Before we get to the recipe I want you to go to your fridge and look at the ingredient list on the back of the BBQ sauce you have. The 1st listed ingredient is the highest amount in the bottle. I’m not sure about your bottle but the number one ingredient on mine is highContinueContinue reading “Homemade BBQ Sauce Recipe”

Balsamic Kohlrabi With Meatballs

Did you grow kohlrabi this year in your garden? They kind of look like an alien to me lol. The leaf shoots coming off a large bulb that grows above the dirt is strange to look at and finding recipes for them is hard to do. They are similar in taste and texture to bambooContinueContinue reading “Balsamic Kohlrabi With Meatballs”

Pumpkin Chili Recipe

It’s pumpkin season again!! All my friends are posting the cutest porcelain pumpkin bowls full of yummy soups and I’m so jealous because I have no fancy bowls! But I do have real pumpkins!! The ultimate edible bowl. This recipe for pumpkin bowls is so easy! The hardest part was cutting the top off myContinueContinue reading “Pumpkin Chili Recipe”

Roasted Tomatoes

Our garden has more jumbo cherry tomatoes than we hardly know what to do with this year. So to keep things going all winter long we spent some time roasting them up. What I love about preserving my own food is having full creative licence over it. If I don’t like how it’s turning outContinueContinue reading “Roasted Tomatoes”

Q-Kids: Investigating Seeds

While some people’s goal with gardens is to store up food. Mine has been to teach our kids where food comes from, how it grows, and how yummy it is. As the season starts producing food the question comes up about seeds. My kids wonder, can we eat them? What happens if we don’t? AfterContinueContinue reading “Q-Kids: Investigating Seeds”

Q-Kids: Gourd Bowls

My kids are obsessed with Native American history and all things artifacts right now. I want to take advantage of their desire to learn in a positive way. We’ve done a dig site already and found a few things. We’ve searched a few local farm fields for arrowheads. We’ve visited a nature preserve focused onContinueContinue reading “Q-Kids: Gourd Bowls”

Raspberry Hedge How To

Earlier this spring an acquaintance advised they were removing an entire row of raspberries from their garden. At $10-$20 a plant at any nursery I grabbed my shovel and invited myself over on digging day. I’d stashed my toddlers kiddy pool in the trunk and within the hour I had it full of baby raspberry bushes.ContinueContinue reading “Raspberry Hedge How To”

Windowsill Lettuce

In mid Michigan the winter can get long, really long, to the point where I want to buy potted plants to smell dirt and see the color green again. I’m also horrible about eating lettuce before it spoils in my fridge. Solution: pick when you need it lettuce. About two weeks before Christmas I pulledContinueContinue reading “Windowsill Lettuce”