Oooooh, I do love corn season. I am a cheap grocery shopper in general, but I’d mortgage my house to buy the first batch of corn each summer. This was one of the things I took for granted in California. We didn’t know we were spoiled with our produce until we came to Colorado where my […]
The Ultimate Guide to Gardening With Kids
Whether you can start gardening with your kids today, or whether you still have a month or more to go before it’s safe to plant outside (like me…le sigh), I’ve got some gardening ideas here you can try with your kids right now. I’ve been itching to get out there — if you follow my […]
How to Compost
So I mentioned last week that we started composting. I’ve been scared to try because it looked like a hassle, but we finally did and here’s what we’ve learned about how to compost. My husband brought home this kitchen composter that’s all cute and sits on our counter. We just dump our kitchen scraps in […]
Fairy Garden Ideas
We’ve been gathering fairy garden ideas and making our own for a few years now. I can’t think of any other activity I do with the kids that’s so much fun to set up. And after the initial set-up, the kids spend hours playing with the gardens and fairies. Everyone loves the fairy garden — from the […]
Homemade Salsa
Our garden is in full swing right now. I can’t remember the last time we got this many tomatoes — by now we’ve usually had at least one good freeze or hailstorm or something that kills off all my tomatoes just before they’re ready to eat. But this time, the little buggers have persevered from […]
5 Tips for Gardening With Kids
It’s staying light later…and yesterday, it was almost 70 degrees here. I know what’s going to happen. It always does. The weather turns warm, I get suckered into planting something fun and colorful outdoors, and then we get a snowstorm that buries my flowers and a little bit of my soul under a foot and […]