Back Burner Blogging...
I know it seems like the blog here is dead. It appears Twitter has taken over and I've given up writing longer form articles. It's as though my world has moved from 1400 words, to 140 characters. When...
Tag: grow-your-own
Grow Your Own: The Garden is a Reality!
The garden has been built, planted and is now growing. Some might say that since no posts have come forth that those facts prove that I am behind in my posting. Those people would be correct. The gard...
Grow You Own: Good News Update
So, We grabbed the two drums I have and stuff the end of the sump pump hose into the barrel. I thought that we might fill a barrel over the course of a few days. I had been monitoring the amount of wa...
Grow Your Own: Collecting Rain - Planning
Well, up here in the northeast we still have a bit of snow on the ground and it's still dropping well below freezing at night so it's much to early to start planting, but it's time for my winter think...
Progress Check In
I've been as busy as ever these past few weeks but I have been slowly making progress on all my little projects. Yesterday Apple posted a few 160GB iPod Classics to the refurb site so I scooped one up...
Using all that you can
Well, the greatest holiday of the year has come and gone and what do we have to show for it? Heaps and heaps of food. Sure, we all know how to make the turkey last, making all manner of turkey recipes...
Book Review: The River Cottage Year
As mentioned in a previous post, I bought two of Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall's books, The River Cottage Year and The River Cottage Meat Book. While I finish reading about raising my own meat I thought...
Grow Your Own: Sorting Out Step 1
Alright, I've made the decision to try to produce some of my own food. Now what? Seems step one should be to do a bit of research. The root of this decision comes from a British television series call...
It's Time to Make a Resolution!
As my more loyal readers will remember, I don't believe is waiting for January 1st to make a 'resolution'. I think that whenever you come to a decision you should do what you can to fix it right now....