Emily, I just read your post about square foot gardening at the Safely Gathered In blog. What a great example of progress. I've had gardens on and off in my adult life; still haven't gotten started at my current home. But your example encourages me to get started this fall/winter. In AZ summer is NOT the time to start gardening!! Thanks for sharing your photos and your experience -- a great inspiration.
I was once pretty clueless when it came to "prepping". Follow my journey towards self-reliance as I explore gardening, food storage, canning, animal husbandry and other homesteading and survival-related topics.
Our Sad Harvest stats for 2012 - The Year of the Big Drought
EGGS:
1,645 chicken eggs & 124 duck eggs
DRIED GOODS:
-4 large bundles of oregano
-40 heads of garlic, some of which I dehydrated and processed into garlic powder
-1 bushel of onions
CANNED:
13 half-pints of blackberry jam
FREEZER:
1 gallon of green bell peppers
4 pints of frozen blackberries
2 heritage turkeys (and after we ate them 8 pints of turkey bone broth)
Harvest 2011 (not counting what we ate fresh)
FREEZER:
16 family-sized packages of green beans 4 gallons of green peppers 1 gallon of jalapenos 1 gallon of poblano peppers
9 pints of blackberries
Several batches of basil pesto
5 c. pumpkin puree
PANTRY:
24 half -pints of blackberry jam 5 pints of dilled green beans 1 half-pint of dried parsley 3 pints of dried oregano leaves 8 quarts and a pint of spaghetti sauce 5 half-pints of salsa jam 5 pints of salsa
Emily, I just read your post about square foot gardening at the Safely Gathered In blog. What a great example of progress. I've had gardens on and off in my adult life; still haven't gotten started at my current home. But your example encourages me to get started this fall/winter. In AZ summer is NOT the time to start gardening!! Thanks for sharing your photos and your experience -- a great inspiration.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Margaret! :)
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