Garlic week
Garlic week is
bittersweet. This is our last big planting push of the year
--- sixteen beds of garlic and potato onions. All that's
left to plant this year after the alliums go in is four final beds
of lettuce, plus rye anywhere I can fit the cover crop in.
The weather seemed to
want to drive the message home, with the first cold rains of the
year falling Wednesday. I closed the windows and asked Mark to
seal off our screen door, then settled in to make fall comfort food. Chicken
soup with the first of the fall carrots and a butternut pie with
the first of the winter squash remind me that cold weather is a
time of good food, deep thought, and writing.
Our chicken waterer is
the POOP-free solution to a filthy homestead problem.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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