by Daisy | Jan 29, 2013 | Body Care, Household
One of the best parts of blogging is the people you “meet” along the way, irrespective of geographical and other barriers. One of those people is Paula Normandale. She is an English herbalist and she has been helping me find my way through this...
by Daisy | Jan 23, 2013 | Fencepost, Reviews
This is the book you need if you are thinking about farming: small-scale, large-scale, any scale. It’s inspirational, but it doesn’t glorify anything. It has the nuts and bolts information you need to know before diving into farm life, like figuring out...
by Daisy | Jan 14, 2013 | Conversation, Fencepost
In Little House knitting news, I was halfway through knitting a second sock yesterday when I put down my needles and took up another set of needles. Tiny ones, size 1. When I’m in second sock mode I sometimes need a little break, not from knitting, but from...
by Daisy | Jan 3, 2013 | Conversation, Fencepost
I don’t like this. In case you can’t tell, what you see in the photo is a hole where a nice fat head of radicchio once grew. All that’s left is a splay of rootless outer leaves left to desiccate around the hole. A mole hole. Short of putting...
by Daisy | Jan 1, 2013 | Conversation, Fencepost
Helping keep the winter doldrums away are the winter-hardy greens we continue to harvest from the garden in spite of temps down in the 20’s. We harvest enough for a couple of hearty salads every evening. In the photo are pictured raddichio, arugula, red leaf...
