Written By Nate. In Cooking, Food, Gardening, Midwest, Recipes, Water, Weather
My two zuchinni plants have grown to encompass probably about four square feet of garden space a piece now and are popping out some whoppers! The zuchinni plants really seem to suck up all the rain water they get which in turn produces some that look like they’re vying for world domination.
This picture shows this
Written By Nate. In Baby, Daily Life, Health & Beauty, The Farm
Picking up where I left off on my last post:
Pamela checked in about every hour to see how things were going and to give support about what was going on at that time. Around 6:15 my wife said she was feeling like she should start pushing.
With that announcement, Pamela began to assemble her birth kit
Written By Nate. In Baby, Daily Life, Health & Beauty, The Farm
After several weeks I’m trying to climb back in the saddle when it comes to the blog bandwagon. I’ve been out of commission for the last several weeks because my wife and I were getting ready to welcome our first child into the world. She arrived on June 23rd at The Farm Midwifery Center in
Written By Nate. In Gardening, Indiana, Midwest
We got a round of thunderstorms rolling through southern Indiana around 4 a.m. and another spout of rain. The other half of garden bed I’ve been waiting to complete turning and getting ready for planting was primed and ready to go after the rain this morning and it was overcast so I wouldn’t char my
Written By Nate. In Cooking, Environment, Food, Summer, Weather
This Memorial Day of course marks the beginning of Summer and what better way to celebrate the season than to fire up your grill, right? Well for me anyway, it’s my preferred method of cooking when it heats up.
Grilling has it’s benefits, especially when it comes to trying to keep your home cool during the
Since I’m a rogue gardener, I’m also not shy about “stealing” plants. Actually I’m pretty sure it was my wife who turned me onto the act, lasciviously telling me to uproot certain plants so she could divide, steal and replant so nobody would ever know. Now I “steal” on my own without having to be
Written By Nate. In Composting, Food, Gardening, Indiana, Midwest, Weather
When it comes to gardening, I’m like a mint plant: rogue and rambling throughout the landscape, putting down roots wherever I see fit. I guess that’s just how I roll and I kind of like it. I’ve learned you can’t really be prim and proper with a vegetable garden anyway because inevitably, the darn things
