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I'm an “Epicurean homesteader” and writer focused on simple, sustainable living. I am the author of Weed-Free Gardening and Grow Your Own Spices. I garden on about 1.5 acres and grow a large variety of annual and perennial edible, medicinal, and ecosystem support plants. I also keep ducks, dairy goats, chickens, a pet turkey, worms, and (occasionally) pigs. I teach classes in my community related to edible landscaping and organic gardening. When not growing food, cooking, or composting, I'm likely rocking on the garden swing with my partner Matt Miles, surrounded by our two dogs and four cats.
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The One Thing Every Gardener Needs

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Environmental Awakening

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May on the Homestead

April 17, 2022 Simplestead

Make Thyme

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Happy National Gardening Day!

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Today’s the Big Day!

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Early and Evergreen Herbs and Spices

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Epicurean Living: The Chicken Issue!

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Early Spring Garden

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Phenology and Phenomenology

March 19, 2022 Simplestead

Simple Savings

March 8, 2022 Simplestead

Light Deprivation for Weed Control

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The Walled Garden

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Cooking Lessons: Bouillabaisse

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The fruit flower show continues...
This is the third time in my gardening life that I've planted Sarah Bernhardt Peonies and the first time I've had flowers.
Best gardening advice ever... just posted over on my blog (Simplestead.com). I bet you can guess from these photos what the topic might be!
Today's photos are of purple potato, planted the same day, in different locations.
Look what opened yesterday! Literally half of my poppies opened at once yesterday morning. I've never seen them all open simultaneously like that. But we had a big rain the night before that might have been heavily laced with soluble nitrogen because everything else in the garden exploded too!
Just one more for today... In a few weeks the garden will be too full of plants to even be able to take a photo like this! But since I have two beds that I just cleared and replanted behind the bench, the breathing room made the roses at center stand out. Their colors also seemed like they were echoed by the new pinkish red leaves on the crabapple to the back of the photo. The horseradish is now hedge high too!
The new apricot leaves, the just about to burst peonies, sizing up clary sage, lily stalks, and the arch and fruit trees behind just looked too beautiful not to share today!
The peas are taking over the trellis walk and the spinach and cabbage are about to be harvested... so I had to get a photo while they looked so beautiful. The garlic is close to three feet tall as well!
Delicious turnips are tough to grow in our climate because the streaks of cold and heat in spring stress the plants and make them bitter before they reach mature size.
Rhubarb sparkling wine is underway at our place. You just need lots of chopped rhubarb, lemons, sugar, and champagne yeast. Well, also tasty unchlorinated water and 5-gallon fermentation buckets. (We use the Meyer lemons that we grow in our greenhouse.)
Hey everyone! I am pretty sure you all know that I'm not a natural user of social media. I'm lucky if I can keep my content down to 2200 words per post, much less 2200 characters! (That's why I have Simplestead.com)
First fruit harvest of the year! These beauties taste as good as they look. Most of them don't even make it out of the garden.
The fruit show continues! Our grape vines are flowering! The flowers look like small grape clusters now. But after the flowers open, they'll look scraggly and spent until the grapes start forming. So, right now is when they flowers look the prettiest.
Here's another water harvesting method we use on our property. This is a spring fed pond at a low point in our landscape. Since it's hard to harvest from, it's mostly just a nice to have back up to other sources.
A beautiful, aromatic mother's day treat... Rose Syrup
Here are some more photos of how we harvest rainwater on our property.
Bon weekend!
I love to share photos of our lovely harvests here on the homestead. But we also harvest rain water. So, I thought you might like to see some of our rain water harvesting methods over the next few days.
Asparagus, mustard greens, purple bok choy for dinner with salmon tonight. First rose blooms on the Rosa rugosa. And fava beans flowering like crazy! These are a few pretty pickings from the homestead garden today!
Over on my website, Simplestead, I just put up a new post about May on the Homestead. Here are some scenes from the garden yesterday that I included in that post. Link to website is in my bio in case you've never visited me on Simplestead.com.

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