Home Improvement, Sustainability, and Organic Gardening in Progress
What do you do when your only child goes off to college? You buy an old farmstead in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, of course!
Rehabbing a farmhouse, gardening, and dabbling with sustainability is keeping us busy. Share our adventures through our writings and photos of the work in progress!
This season, we took another step in trying to grow cut flowers. The past two seasons, we have grown them from seed and planted into containers. This season, we tried to plant a 50-foot strip of flowers, which I dubbed the 50-foot flower farm. Killing grass for the cut flower garden The first observation I have is that it is a lot of work to grow flowers. A new bed had to be created and tilled. I had planned the garden assuming all the seeds would germinate and grow, which di
The short strawberry season is starting to wind down in the Driftless Area. A few roadside signs are up, with the local Amish selling their crops. Our strawberry patch ended up doing much better than I had thought it would. We got anywhere from a pint to a quart of strawberries each day over the season. While we ended up with enough for a pie, we have been enjoying them in other ways. Maggie likes to eat them as-is, or cut up with a bit of sugar. I baked a batch of homemade s
