First bowl of harvested tomatoes. July 2018

Here is my contribution to #colorchallenge for Wednesday. This handsome daffodil lives in Connecticut USA, with a great view of the Long Island sound. This type of daffodil is my favorite, with the double

The daffodils are in full bloom in southeastern Connecticut. Thus beauty was at Harkness Park.

I love gardening. These radishes are fresh from the garden, and show very well in the bright spring sun. I enjoy them raw. Just enough bite to sting my mouth, but still fresh and crisp enough to satisfy

Spring edibles have started sprouting in southeastern Connecticut. Some types of mallow or mustard. Yarrow staring to poke through. Collection of mustard and some docks. Violets have also popped. They

I have 128 cell trays and 50 cell trays that I start my seedlings in every year. I lay out the trays with a 11 by 17 inch sheet of paper, and write in what seeds I put in each cell. Here's my too for

I've had chickens for a few years now, and They do a great job of tilling up land and destroying weeds. I lost a few to some predators and a few flew away and got nabbed, so I shrunk up thier run and converted

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It was an unseasonably warm morning for January in New England. As the day went on, the temperature dropped quite a bit. I headed out early as the sun was still rising. There was a ton of rain the day

Here is the first spoon I've ever carved. Money shot first I got some carving tools for Christmas, and I thought I'd give them a workout and try my hand at spoon carving. It took a few hrs, and I used

Here is a time lapse of a September sunrise I took one morning while vacationing on Peaks Island in Maine with my family. Peaks Island is a small island about 3 miles off the coast of Maine. Its a nice,

See link below for part 1 I added another layer to the tower. In the first post I said I used 2 x 10's for the sides, but I was incorrect, these are 2 x 12 boards, now stacked two levels high. spudtastic

Every day Herbalism The Plantain With summer in full swing, and with my entire family walking around the yard barefoot, I thought it would be a good time to highlight my favorite perennial "weed"

I had to help a friend rebuild his rock wall. The whole thing had collapsed after years of erosion behind the wall. The water had washed out all the fill that helped support the rock wall, and it collapsed

Nature does incredible things I spent a week in Florida, and I spent a lot of that time collecting shells with my kids. What a perfect time to teach them about the Fibonacci sequence. Nature creates some

I decided to do something different this year. In years past I had grown potatoes in the traditional hills. the re-mounding weekly and then digging got me looking into different methods of planting potatoes

img source: The value of your labor is a very subjective thing. What is valuable to one person is a complete waste of time to another person, and therefore value of time spent doing a task is not something

We live in an time where it is harder than ever to raise a boy into an independent adult that can not only take care of himself, but can care for and about others around them. During the times we live

I see him coming down the hall, his head down, eyes scanning the phone that seems to be permanently glued to his hand. I wonder what could be so important that makes the rest of the world dissolve around

Shooting a bow is a lot like life. Two major forces are at work, always pulling against each-other trying to overpower one another until equilibrium is reached. The tension of the bows back and the compression