Category: Veggie & Homestead
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Permaculture Perennial Plant Guild Design Plan
I’m excited to share my brand new Permaculture Perennial Guild Design Plan, crafted for gardeners who want more than just a pretty space. This design goes beyond aesthetics — it’s a thoughtfully composed plant guild that supports pollinators, builds soil, provides food, and seasonal beauty. 🌿 What’s Included in the Design Plan? This downloadable 39-page…
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Starting Seeds Indoors Pt 2: Lighting
In my last post, Starting Seeds Indoors Pt 1: When?, I covered what plants are best to start indoors and when. But now, how do we start seeds indoors? In this post I will cover lighting. It took a lot of research to figure out what type of lighting I wanted to use. I found…
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Starting Seeds Indoors: What should you start and when
Knowing when to start seeds indoors can be quite confusing! Simply keep this in mind. Starting plants from seed indoors breaks down to 2 factors: Here in Kentucky, our first frost free date is supposed to be April 15th. But remember it snowed in May 2018? My advice, would be to go by the predicted…
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Early Fall Garden Harvest
With cold weather approaching, I took some last days of t-shirt weather and did some tidying up in the garden. I completely advocate being a ‘lazy’ gardener when it comes fall time to create winter wildlife habitat. There are some things I do before winter gets here though and it mainly has to do with…
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12 Tips to Prepare for at Home
It’s always best to be prepared for snow. Here is a checklist to being prepared this winter! Prepare the garden for winter by following these tips from this blog post: Preparing the Garden For Winter
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Bleugrass Chevre: A Goat Cheese Farm Tour
This weekend the University of Kentucky Slow Foods group visited a local goat cheese farm, Bleugrass Chevre. Susan Miller, runs her farm just 20 miles outside Lexington in Clark County. We were greeted by all the baby goats when we arrived. We then met Susan and she took us to her kitchen and told us how…