by Ivory Soap | Jul 21, 2011 | Fencepost, Reviews
******Congratulations to our winners, Heather Anne, Annie, and Molly************* This week, our giveaway is from Health, Home, Happiness where Cara designs fabulous meal plans for grain-free, traditional food diets. These plans not only fit people on the SCD and GAPS...
by Daisy | Jul 12, 2011 | Conversation, Fencepost
If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you may have noticed we’ve seemingly dropped off the planet lately. If you were wondering, we’re still here. We’ve just been expecting company. You know what it’s like when people are coming over. ...
by Daisy | Jul 12, 2011 | Conversation, Fencepost
I was born in the proverbial land of cotton, but have little experience with anything but the finished product. I do remember as a child my mother teaching me how to pick the seeds out of middle of the dense bolls to eat them, but the plants themselves were no more...
by Daisy | Jun 19, 2011 | Conversation, Fencepost
Back in May I was worried about my cabbages. It was already warming up beyond ambient cabbage temperatures and they hadn’t formed heads yet. I feared they never would. But they did. Mainly this one: A beautiful 2 1/2 pound purple cabbage. A humble cabbage, just...
by Daisy | Jun 9, 2011 | Conversation, Fencepost
These are Three Root Grex beets. I’ve never grown beets that seemed so happy to be alive. The tops are lush and thick and giant and sweet. Since this variety is a cross of three different heirloom types of beets, some roots are red, some yellow, and some...
by Daisy | Jun 7, 2011 | Conversation, Fencepost
I love the bush bean variety I planted this year, Jade. Makes an extremely productive, nice-looking, fast-growing stand of beans. The fuzzy stuff on the right of the photo is fennel. We’ve harvested beans about every other day, so much that it started to get...