where healthy meets happy
This is one of our favorite Spring activities. We have a small garden in our backyard, but our boys still love making one pot mini gardens. We plant them and give them to friends and neighbors as gifts. The fun part is deciding what kind of mini garden to build…salsa usually wins around here. Check [...]
Today, we spent nearly four hours touring local, organic farms in our area. It was exciting and inspiring to meet the farmers and their families, visit a variety of crops, learn the details behind the organic techniques that protect our food and their farms and collect some great tips for caring for our own backyard gardens. At Rocky Glade Farm, they gave [...]
I have to start with a confession. We used to be those people who got our yards sprayed. What they sprayed it with, I honestly don’t know and I didn’t want to find out. It was something my husband insisted on after 2 years of trying to grow grass in Tennessee and finally investing in [...]
It’s hard to believe it’s time to start thinking about cool weather crops, especially since it’s 105 outside and we’re under a heat advisory, but now is the time. For those of us planning a fall/winter garden we are actually down to the wire on deciding what we want to grow, picking up seeds and sowing them (indoors). If you’re purchasing [...]
There are dozens of reasons I love having an organic garden, but my husband’s favorite reason is the savings on organic produce. Beyond the initial investment of theraised bed, compost and plants there is very minimal costs involved. Last year I spent, about $300 to get our garden started (raised bed materials, compost soil, plants, [...]
