The weather warmed up this week and my starts are much happier!

Except for the brassicas (cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage), they are tiny and look terrible and I'm not sure what is wrong with them. It's time to plant them out though, so I will see if they do better outside. I will also put a few seeds directly in the ground and see how those do.We eat a lot of broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage, so I hope I can get them going in time!

My potatoes went in this week, the peas are…

There's just no other month like April!  The grass is green and everything is starting to bloom.  It's the time of year that I get busy picking plants for medicine.  I have been called a squirrel when people hear about me walking in the woods every day with my clippers and bags saying I'm going foraging! I come back with bags and pockets full and lots of leaves pressed into my field guides of things I want to look up.  Each plant has it's ideal time for harvesting depending on what part of…

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