Free June Wallpaper

The free monthly June wallpaper for your desktop has been posted on the “Free Downloads” page.

Enjoy!

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Hungry Goats

Our kids love to feed the pet goats at the Nyland cohousing community. They even pick the fresh, juice, thick, green grass that is growing around our plot.

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Quiz 2

It is high time for our next quiz.
Do you recognize what this is? If you know the answer leave a comment. Good luck!

 
This was the last quiz:

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Toad Surprise

It was time to till a row in our Nyland plot so that we could transplant some Kabocha squash, okra and broccoli seedlings along with some greens and corn.
As I was digging with my shovel, suddenly a piece of soil jumped a foot in the air – well, and I jumped about a yard backwards [...]

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You Are What You Eat

I saw this neat graphic display at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in the “Hall of Life – Exploring Human Health” exhibition.

This exhibition seems to be quite successful and is very interactive. You can even get your own personal health profile printout that includes such things as blood pressure, resting pulse, active pulse, [...]

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What is edible?

Oh boy, I can see our next challenge coming our way: with all the weeds growing in the same bed as our produce we need to learn to identify the edible plants from the weeds…
I have to say at this early stage with only a few leaves showing and not knowing how produce [...]

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Rhubarb Almond Cake

Yippee, the first rhubarb of the season is ready to be picked!
I am a great fan of anything rhubarb and can’t wait to introduce my family to all of my different rhubarb recipes now that I have my own supply of rhubarb and it won’t cost me an arm and a leg. It is great [...]

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Soil Tests

I thought it would be interesting to measure the Active Fallow impact on the soil and went ahead with the purchase of a simple soil test kit at Home Depot.
I took 4 different samples across the Nyland plot and 3 different samples across the backyard plot. Following the instructions I got the following soil test [...]

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Starting Seeds

A few weeks ago Sandy got me all excited about starting seeds so that I got a new project off the ground nearly three weeks ago: starting my own seeds.
Sandy was so gracious to teach me her true and tried method of getting very quick and good results in starting seeds. Thank you very much [...]

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Planting Part II

Okay, most of our seed potatoes have arrived and it was time to put them into the ground.
We headed over to our Nyland plot, tilled the “potato lanes” and planted our potatoes (Yukon Gold) and Jerusalem artichokes with corn, bok choi, nappa and greens… and ran out of tilled soil…
Oh, boy, we will have to [...]

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