Hi there!  I'm a 34 year old married nursing student, my husband and I own a home with a 1/6 acre lot, so I'm pretty stoked about setting up a garden in the spring ( Read more... )

Here's my gorgeous courgette flowers this morning.


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Hi! Longtime lurker, first-time poster . . . .

Have any of you seen the Freedom Gardens Network site yet??? It's a Myspace/Facebook/MyFolia clone devoted entirely to urban homesteading and sustainability ( Read more... )

( Yard and garden pics, two kid pics also )

I'm making a container garden for the first time this year. Some were started from purchased seedlings, but others have been started from seeds and need help, since I didn't know how many would germinate. I'm glad I planted too many -- my germination rate's been pretty bad. And yes, I know it's a lot of plants, but I have a family of six and ( Read more... )

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Pictures of the Garden

Can anyone tell me how to do Notes on Flickr?

(xposted to compost_wackos not_quite_rural and gentlesurvival)

Recently a few friends of mine have voiced the opinion that the US is headed for a Great Depression-style economic recession. Putting aside the question of whether or not that is the case, here is what I would, ideally, do if that did happen.

1: Expand the garden. I would want to at least double, and preferably triple, the size of the SFG, and ( Read more... )

Sunday I collected wild elderberries from my backyard. The berries were here when I moved in, they are considered an invasive weed ( Read more... )