The plan is to use old single-pane divided light windows for the walls of the greenhouse. The windows were practically free, and we think the older and weathered aesthetic they bring will go better with the other buildings on the…
With Hurricane Irene bearing down on NYC we assumed we would be better off on higher ground, tucked away in the foothills. We were safe, but definitely not better off. While our friends in the city were back at work…
We’ve been fortunate enough that the previous owners loved the house, and loved gardening. They surrounded the entire home in a moat of flora, many of the flowers planted to attract butterflys and hummingbirds. This spring we trimmed and mulched…
Our garden is the vegetable version of Noah’s ark, we basically have two of everything. This year instead of going for a big crop of anything we planted a wide variety of plants to see what would do well, so…
This spring we had a truckload of mulch/soil delivered to the house and dumped on our driveway. We’ve used most of it on the vegetable garden, but there was a good bit left over. This weekend we finally moved it…
The fourth of July weekend was a productive one. We managed to start, and finish, one of the many projects on our list – a dinner table. Amanda’s grandmother gave us a beautiful little table a few years back, a…
This one is gonna take a while. We haven’t even finished half the other projects (fixing up the shop, fixing up the club, putting up the screen door, making the dinner table, replacing the rotted wood on the small gazebo,…
Our last guinea hen is now gone. Painfully, for the last few weeks the numbers have declined steadily. At the end of the day we would check the coop and sometimes they were all there, but typically one was missing….
The guineas are free. We finally decided to let them roam and do what we raised them to do – eat bugs and ticks from the yard. We opened the gates on their coop and it took only a minute…
Wild daffodils are sprouting up in every open patch on the whole 9 acres. Along with the daffodils are patches of green sprouts, a little different than the daffodil leaves and unidentifiable to us novices. At first we thought these…