easy mini root cellar, via Mother Earth News
”[Mavis Butterfield] went from spending $9,768 on groceries in 2008 to just under $1,200 in 2011. And now, she feeds her family of four on a mere $100 per month— that’s $25 a person!” (from
“What if you could tuck a lucky penny in the ground and watch it sprout into a flower? You can with our letterpress paper coinage!”
(via hypnicjerker)
Edible garden update,7 weeks post-planting
All 4 varieties of tater continue to run amok thanks to two weeks of near constant rain. Carrots still need thinning, as do the broad beans and peas but I simply cannot. The legumes survived the heavy winds last week, but only because I ran outside in gale-force winds like a nutter to stake them. Salad onions look a bit disappointing by comparison. The runner beans are colonising the shed.
And I have my first ripening strawberry!
(permaculture plants part 1, via jesuisperdu)
According to Gettle, the term “heirloom” generally refers to seed varieties that have not been hybridized or genetically modified and, in the end, deliver vegetables with better taste and nutrition than non-heirloom varieties. Moreover, heirloom varieties are open-pollinated, usually more than 50 years old and typically have been passed down through generations of growing and seed saving. A seed saved from an heirloom varietal and replanted will yield the identical plant and produce from year to year.
