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The Unkept Garden

March 29, 2015 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

This year, I’ve been hemming and hawing about my spring garden, mostly lamenting that I didn’t start seeds weeks and weeks ago. “Is it worth starting now?,” I’ve been asking myself. “Maybe I’ll just give spring gardening a miss this year.” My cousin messaged me on Facebook on the 16th, saying he’d put out tomato plants that…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Gardening, Livestock, Nature, Photography Tagged With: chihuahua, kitchen gardening, lettuce, potatoes, shorty, tomatoes

The Edge Of Autumn

September 13, 2014 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

Yesterday, temps were in the 90s, but all afternoon, we heard the howling of the wind. It’s probably the way our house is situated, or maybe the metal roof, but when the wind comes through, it sounds super intense and can be a little frightening. Considering how hot it’s been lately, though, we welcomed the…

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Filed Under: Current Affairs, Food & Drink, Kitchen Gardening, Livestock, Nature Tagged With: blender, chickens, gardening, green smoothies, homestead, kitchen gardening, Sand Holler Farm

A Year Of Gardening: What I’ve Learned

February 23, 2014 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

Now, I know a year isn’t that long, especially when you’re talking about a pursuit with so many layers of knowledge, but I’m hoping I’ve at least had the worst of the rookie mistakes, so I can move on from there. Following, a few things that I’ve learned in my admittedly limited experience. 1. Don’t…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Gardening Tagged With: gardening, kitchen gardening, seed starting

No Waste: Capturing The Moment With Rain Barrels

July 27, 2013 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

In Central Texas, we’ve got plenty of sunshine. Also, plenty of bugs — this time of year you feel like you’re wading through a sea of grasshoppers as you walk through the yard, as they scatter with high jumps all around you. What we don’t have enough of is rain. It’s really quite dire. People…

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Filed Under: Austin, Kitchen Gardening, Nature, No Waste Tagged With: kitchen gardening, rain barrels, rain collection, rain water collection, solar powered watering, water collection

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