#hobbitizing

I'm not sure about the rest of you who are getting ready for this year's growing season, but we've yet to begin. With us headed to Florida, later this year than ever before, we've put most things on hold.

This year's garden has been a very successful one and the veggies keep coming. Before I get to showing you what we've got going on in our garden I must show you a vine that continues to grow even though

As the garden season winds down I'm already busy gathering all the stuff needed to make compost for next year's garden. Here's a list of some of what I add to the compost pile, egg shells, coffee grinds,

This update may be late for the August Challenge, but documenting what goes on here at the farm is my reason for staying active on #hive, so here we go. The weather this year has been one of the craziest

I'm sure that all of you gardeners out there have been as busy as we have been this time of year. When the frost relinquishes the earth and the chance of a killing frost has subsided, it's game on. One

Several weeks ago @plantstoplanks posted a blog about her first attempt at growing mushrooms. Her post immediately captured my attention. After reading her post several times, I thought that I'd also give

I don't know if you have ever heard of the term tapped out. In mixed martial arts this term is used when an opponent has decided to call it quits and surrenders to his opponent. After getting home from

With freezing temps in the forecast for tonight, it has been one hell of a laborious and productive day. The day started early with harvesting the carrots. Leaving them to grow until the last minute afforded

It's hard to believe that our garden is still spitting out LOADS of produce. The middle of October is just around the corner. At least I think it is. ???????? Or, could it be that I'm retired and I don't

What a strange growing season it has been. With next to no rain for five weeks and then rain every other day for the past six weeks, somehow our garden thrived. Just a few crops failed to produce, including

After hobbitizing at a steadfast pace for the past six weeks, things have slowed down a little. With all that was happening at the beginning of our short window to grow our STUFF, I missed out on posting

After hobbitizing at a steadfast pace for the past six weeks, things have slowed down a little. With all that was happening at the beginning of our short window to grow our STUFF, I missed out on posting

Let the building begin. My brother Barry officially retired on March 31st after 42 years in the Carpenter's Union. He has owned 28 acres in Herkimer NY for the past decade, intending to build his dream

Since the day I retired, which was almost seven years ago, I've been putting money under my mattress to make a dream come true. Exactly a month ago @farm-mom and I bought a Kubota. We purchased our new

Finally, the snow is GONE and the dirt is no longer frozen, yippee! With Old Man Winter slowly fading into the ever-higher, rising sun, it's time for us to get soiled. Like most kids, playing in the dirt

Fall brings on a shower of leaves like you're at a ticker tape parade at Time Square, New York City, on New Year's Eve After the party of falling paper or #nature's party of falling leaves from trees,

If you can't do it once, you can do it a hundred times Me My name is Nusrat Jahan My home is Bangladesh. I am a college student. I have just started studying in college. Hello friends, I have come to be

Right around the middle of July until the 3rd week of August it's game on. The blueberry bushes here in Upstate NY, are chock full of those delightfully tasty, nutrient and vitamin-packed, anti-inflammatory,

Congratulations on last week's winning entries, @gems.and.cookies, and @ninahaskin. With the keywords for this week being, swimming pool and table I figured these pics would work just fine. When my son

Back at it, and not a minute too soon! Knowing that there was a lot of hobbitizing that needed to take place over the next two days, I was up before the rooster's first crow. What was on the agenda for