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COVID-19: the first six months

I had a haircut scheduled. Fiona was supposed to be doing her driving road test in a few days. It was March 17th, 2020. A week later my hair was longer than ever, and it would continue to grow for

Miranda October 3, 2020October 5, 2020 Being active, Family Matters, Gardening, Moving on, Parenting, The Natural World, Travel 1 Comment

Back to the garden

Although I’ve kept herbs and occasional greens growing next to the deck, I haven’t grown a proper garden since (checks blog archives… ) 2008. That must have been the point at which the water line broke, and I started taking

Miranda June 23, 2019June 23, 2019 Gardening, Main No Comments

Spring Forward

The time changed yesterday and today it felt like spring. Spring has been teasing us for at least a month. Yes, a month, since the beginning of February. We’ve had almost no winter this year and almost no snow since

Miranda March 8, 2015February 3, 2016 Being active, Day in the life, Gardening, Main, Out on the property No Comments

Bokashi experience so far

Last fall we started using a bokashi waste system. All food waste, including meat, bones, dairy and small amounts of oil and fat, went into a plastic 5-gallon bucket with a lid, combined with sprinkles of a microbial starter. We

Miranda June 13, 2013February 3, 2016 Gardening, Living simply, Main, Out on the property

Bokashi

Bokashi bin, and wheat-bran starter Okay, it isn’t pretty, but it’s pretty cool. We’ve been outdoor composting for more than 20 years. We tried indoor vermicomposting for a while, but despite our best efforts couldn’t entirely prevent fruit-fly outbreaks. We

Miranda October 10, 2012February 3, 2016 Gardening, Living simply, Main

Macro perspective

I put the magnifying lenses on the DSLR camera the other day and Fiona had fun shooting up-close photos around the garden. A change in perspective is truly magical. Thyme Parsley Lupin top Rosemary Hawkweed Hens & Chicks

Miranda June 30, 2011February 3, 2016 Creativity, Gardening, Main

Tea progress

Fiona’s tea business is taking shape. Some organic ingredients have been purchased. These have been combined with wildcrafted ingredients like rosehips, peppermint and wild ginger. The wild ginger in particular has entailed several trips along trails for collecting but we

Miranda May 19, 2011February 3, 2016 Gardening, Living simply, Main

Fallow days

We’re enjoying a well-deserved few fallow days. Besides the bike rides, runs and swimming days, we’re attending to a few lingering jobs at home. We finally finished disassembling the play structure. This involved sawing timbers away from seized bolts and

Miranda June 21, 2010February 3, 2016 Creativity, Day in the life, Gardening, Living simply, Main, Recipes

Moving a pond

This is where the pond and waterfall used to be. Under the apple tree about 20 metres from the house. A lovely shaded area, but with no seating nearby we rarely enjoyed it. Now that we have a deck, I

Miranda May 21, 2010February 3, 2016 Gardening, Living simply, Main, Out on the property

Milo, and the Slide

Fiona and I went to the garden center in Nelson this week. We bought some bedding plants as well as some shrubs and herbs for the garden we’re creating in front of the deck. Our old kitchen garden was clear-cut

Miranda May 19, 2010February 3, 2016 Gardening, Main, Resources, The ugly face of reality

Silted up

I love our water system, I really do. Our supply is gravity fed, fresh mountain spring water and it’s free and plentiful and all ours. It comes from high up a mountain that has no human activity on it. It

Miranda April 30, 2010February 3, 2016 Gardening, Living simply, Main, The Natural World

Spring dinner

I love this time of year. Garden fresh lettuce, chickens laying like crazy, the rhubarb is still plump and vigorous. Down the road it’s calving and lambing time. Tonight for dinner I think we’ll have lettuce and wild greens with

Miranda June 18, 2009February 3, 2016 Gardening, Living simply, Main

All mucked out

Oh, look at this stuff! It makes me so happy and proud! Procrastinator that I am, I prefer to just keep adding straw to the chicken coop to keep it relatively fresh. I do one big mucking-out a year.This was

Miranda July 20, 2008February 3, 2016 Closer to the source, Gardening, Living simply, Main

First crumble

It’s hard to believe, from looking at this, that there was 8 inches of snow on the ground a scant 3 weeks ago. Temperatures are still cool here, but the rhubarb is loving the weather. Fiona’s peas, chard and spinach

Miranda May 14, 2008February 3, 2016 Gardening, Main, Recipes, The Natural World

Community garden cleanup

Every spring and fall we participate in a big clean-up bee at the community Reflection Garden. This year’s spring clean-up seems much earlier than in past years though that’s really only an illusion resulting from our unusually long winter. It’s

Miranda March 29, 2008February 3, 2016 Community, Gardening, Homeschooling, Main
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