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Author Archives: Laura Grace Weldon
Canning, Drying, Freezing- Oh My!
There’s no satisfaction quite like putting food by, especially food you’ve grown. Simply opening cupboards filled with gleaming Mason jars is a visual feast. Continue reading
Posted in autumn, canning, Uncategorized
Tagged brew stand canning, canning, homestead, outdoor canning, preserving, putting food by, winter prep
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Eat The Raspberries
My oldest and his wife offered freshly harvested raspberries. My next oldest went over to pick them up and drop them here. Eight pints of beautiful berries! Although I power through lot of vegetables, I almost never eat fruit. Sometimes … Continue reading
Yonder Basement Window Glows Strangely Pink
We have been starting seeds indoors for decades. There’s something enormously heartening about tucking tiny seeds into pots while March winds howl outside. In a few months those pale specks will result in glossy eggplants, huge squash, fiery peppers, and … Continue reading
Posted in gardening, seed starting
Tagged gardening, grow lights, leggy seedlings, seed starting, seedling starting problems
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Kindness In Trying Times
I have never felt more a member of my community than now, when none of us can get together. Last week I posted a question on our community Facebook page. I have a diagnosis that puts me in a risk … Continue reading
Slushy Day To Play
Who wouldn’t want to stomp on iced-over puddles, feel that delicious crackle as you splash through to mud underneath? Who wouldn’t want to pick up pieces of glass-like ice, feel them fall to smaller pieces in your hands, see if … Continue reading
Two-Ingredient GF Vegan Buckwheat Bread
Poetry led me back to bread. I was in Youngstown last weekend for the amazing Lit Youngstown Festival. Being a hermit-y sort, I’ve never been to a literary festival before but went because an awesome thing happened. An excerpt from … Continue reading
Posted in bread recipe, fermented recipe
Tagged buckwheat bread, fermented, gf, poetry, vegan
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Mow Less, Save Nature
One year our school had an exchange student from Turkey. He was gifted in athletics and darkly handsome. As a blond klutz this meant I had nothing in common with him. But we ended up as science class lab partners, … Continue reading
Posted in lawn, native plants
Tagged lawn, native plants, pollinators, save birds, stop mowing
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Glorious Summer
I am an ungainly peasant, bent over, yanking out roots of life’s green impulse. Even as the weeds go limp they send out the freshest breath. I apologize to them for my human-centric approach. I may be impressed by morning … Continue reading
All About Perspective
Two years ago we had a 30′ x 72′ high tunnel built, with a wooden kickboard and heavy chicken wire where the sides roll up to keep it secure. My husband planted 54 grapevines in a range of carefully selected … Continue reading
Livestock Bedding As Garden Soil
Every year we noticed seeds sprout, grow, and mature in the piles of bedding and manure from our cow barn. Mostly squash and melon seeds — quite naturally those seeds were available after feeding cattle the leftover squash and melon from our gardens.
It got me thinking. Continue reading
