Once Upon a Family

Our 4H club enjoyed a behind the scenes peek at a greenhouse.  So much more goes on there than meets the eye. Some of it is rig...

We were given a spaghetti squash a few years ago from someone who had a garden overflowing with them and loved it.  The next couple of year...

Most of the parts to the planter in the order from bottom to top of the picture how I stacked them together, I added one more saucer an...

Our second berry of the year and there is one more ripening in the garden!  Yep, our total crop will be three berries and we are ecstat...

When cutting up veggies to freeze for our winter food supply, this green pepper was smiling.  It must have been happy to contribute.  If...

The garden starting to produce fast and furious so it is time to start freezing some of it. These are peppers, cut up, laid on a baking s...

Here is our radish crop.  The whole thing.  An entire long row.  The largest one is about as big around as a nickel.  We do have one thin...

  We have this beautiful snowball bush that is heavily covered with flowers.     I am always so happy when it blooms because ev...

  We are getting desperate to grow something, anything.  With the weather not cooperating we put some seeds in plastic bags with wet pa...

  The theme of the day at co-op was seeds.  The kids planted them in pots, in cups, in baggies, and in eggs shells.  They planted every...

With snow in the forecast for the next seven days we are still hopeful that there will be a spring, even a summer, and we will be able to p...

Last Sunday was our yearly club project day.  It is a day where each family takes topics and does a little talk and has the kids do a proje...

Opening the mailbox and finding an envelope full of seeds!!

  This fall Dad's great aunt Muriel died and we were the recipients of her Christmas cactus.  It was beautiful.  It was huge, at le...

  Pulled most of the garden out and then Dad tilled for the spring.   It was so dry the weeds didn't even hardly grow so he ...