The Good: Its LOCAL! One of our highest criteria for any products! It’s organic! It’s vegan, non GMO, artisan. The packaging is well branded. The texture is very nice. Soft and Moist. Though it’s best

The Good: Non GMO. 100% Juice. Healthier than most snacks. Has good branding and labeling. Lots of info and good asthmatics. If you like mango you will like this. The not so good: it’s not local it’s a

The Good: Its not a mega corp product. It’s a local run business. It’s vegan, non GMO. The packaging is simple but decently branded. The texture is very nice. Soft and Moist. Though it’s better with butter!

The good: Taste great. About as good as any available. Non GMO No fillers, nitrates binders, antibiotics, hormones etc. it’s also farm raised and up from the ocean which almost all the time is far better

The good: non GMO No fillers, nitrates binders, antibiotics, hormones etc. Simple. Convenient. Minimal packaging. The not so good: It’s not local. We always promote local for many reasons. While quality

The Good: Non GMO. Healthier than most snacks. Gluten free! It taste good. Just as good as a “normal” chip” but healthier. Has good branding and labeling. Lots of info and good marketing. It’s gluten free.

Finished up prepping the back flat garden beds and cleared out the snap peas from the back winter bed. I think I am going to get a handheld torch to burn holes in the landscape fabric. Still undecided.

Prepped for transplanting the seedlings in a week or less...

Miami USA grown 100% organic non GMO wow! source:

My very first successful cauliflower! I was so hungry at dinner that I forgot to take a pic of my garlic roasted cauliflower. I have only one other head of cauliflower that is growing...I hope it survives.

I do. I really do.

Ladybugs!

So grateful to have purchased a home with established #fruit #trees. These blood #oranges are the bomb. The bomb dot com. Yup

Found this curious-looking fungi in my back yard area. I think it is Peziza Badia, but I could be wrong. These are pretty big. Definite cup-like structure. Feels like a dehydrated apricot. Looks like a

For #treetuesday, this is one of three fig trees in my yard. This one is a brown turkey fig...it is a delicious fruit that I have made into preserves, fruit leather, and eaten fresh off of the tree.

We need to be self sufficient. Here is a picture of some wonky carrots I pulled up and am steaming for dinner. They are oddly shaped but packed with vitamins and minerals, they are organic and nongmo.

Harvest from the front raised beds: young sweet potatoes and peas. Delish, organic, nongmo.

I took a break from work to capture some sights around my yard on this beautiful 55 degree day. Bottle tree in progress. Old bottles. More old bottles. Nature on top of the barbecue. Yard art. Poppies

I planted the seed and tended the soil and this odd little carrot emerged and I ate it. Fin.

When I bought this suburban house, I didn't realize that I would want to instantly turn it into a #homestead but that is exactly what happened. There is no turning back. I installed raised veggie beds