spring is windy in the mountains

two shots of the main garden;
garlic in the far background with cucumber trellis in foreground:

carrot screen and lettuce, kale and beets coming up around that..

New Chicken Coop

we brought the old nesting box for ernie's birds to the new coop:




The jersey giants getting used to their bigger, better home:

April, Twenty-Ten

garlic:

things are getting done.

clover all over the main garden:


garlic tops coming up!:

sunflowers

i just can not wait. i am digging up old digital photo albums

From High desert home garden

more soon.....

Compost Bin Construction

selecting the finest pallets for our third and probably final compost bin:

Winter

The last four months in a nutshell:

new ceiling fan helping us heat our house with just the wood stove (second year now without any other heat sources!

home sweet home:

two things we need...

...to get the 2010 growing season going:

#1) a replacement pump head for the broken pump we currently have.

Not using technology as much anymore...

...for these are simpler times indeed. wood burnin', bread bakin', soup makin', flu coughing and snow shovelin'. when the latter stops we are constructing our first cold-farme! seed catalogues are yet to arrive.

keepin' it local

not only is our main heat source, wood harvested from the very local five acres we live on, but our dogs have been on a local, raw, and organic diet for longer than i can remember.

manure is good for plants

alpacas are funny, curious creaturesyoung ones:

Planting Garlic