"Spring is in the Air" is an odd comment in February from someone who lives in the Chicago suburbs; especially when it snowed almost all day on Wednesday. It was so pretty and it covered up all the muddy spots in the yard! I can feel the change in the air and my thoughts are all about Spring, daffodils and tulips. It's interesting how being an urban farmer, you have a new-found interest in weather details. It was 56 degrees today and we have about 45 more minutes of day light than we did in ...
Create a Kitchen Collage
I discovered PicMonkey and I really had a lot of fun figuring out how to use this amazing tool. It is pretty easy to negotiate but best of all it's FREE. Because it's so cute, I just had to share this Kitchen Collage that I created using PicMonkey. It's a montage of all things that are good on our urban farm. I've also stumbled upon Canva which is a great design tool. I've used it for just about everything from my Facebook page cover to party invitations. There are so many wonderful ...
New Years Resolution – Whole 30
Happy New Years Resolution! I don't recall ever seriously making (or keeping) a New Years resolution. That all changes on Tuesday, January 5th. It's the day I go back to work and the day that I've chosen to start the Whole 30 eating lifestyle. I'm calling it a lifestyle instead of a diet. It's 30 days of eliminating all the crap from your diet that suck up your energy, lead to aches and pain, allergy symptoms. All kinds of maladies that I find myself dealing with. ...
Christmas House Tour 2015
Welcome to my Christmas House Tour. It's been a while but I'm back blogging about getting ready for the Christmas Holiday Season at our house. It is so hard to believe that when we haul out all the boxes we can turn this: ...
What’s New on the Urban Farm
Handy and I decided that our gardens were out of control and our yard was full of quack grass. To the naked eye it might not look bad but it's was a jungle of weeds and overgrown wild flowers. It's rare when I could capture nice pictures like these because most of the summer there is little to no color. So with little to no thought - we decided to kill the gardens and part of the lawn. We really didn't do much of the work. We started and after a few attempts at digging out plants ...
Every Garden Needs a Greenhouse
Every garden needs a green house and we got one on sale from our local Costco. It's hard to believe but we bought this greenhouse and "customized" it for a very reasonable price. Handy and my fabulous niece, Danika spend a couple of weekends moving and laying brick pavers for the base of our greenhouse. I had seen many pictures of greenhouses that I loved and they all had a brick or stone base. A quick trip to Menards and we were able to find a great stone paver that would work as a ...