Fresh, Organic, Medicinal Herbal Teas

So, I shared with you in a past blog about a herb tea class I am taking. I have really enjoyed it, it went much deeper than I thought it would into herbs teaching the botanical and common name, the plant family, botanical description, parts of the plant to...

Our First Hydroponic System

We have been thinking about different ways to grow fruits and vegetables. Beside planting them in the dirt and were very interested in hydroponics which uses water. There are many benefits to growing using a hydroponic system.  You can literally grow anywhere you have space, a hydroponic system uses...

Do You Have An Herb Garden?

Having an herb garden has always been a dream of mine however; gardening has always meant veggies in my mind. I have been doing vegetable gardening for most of my life. In the Beginning I grew up on a cattle ranch in Montana and we had a very large...

Chicken Does the Body and the Wallet Good

To me there is nothing easier and more economical to cook with then a whole chicken. Unfortunately, a lot of us have gotten away from cooking with whole chicken because of time and lack of knowledge of what to do with it.  I hope to prove to you that...

Joys of Our Backyard Chickens

Today I’d like to talk to ya’ll about our backyard chickens. We have been asked “Why do you have chickens?” One of the reasons of course is getting fresh eggs every day. Also, we really enjoy sitting on the back deck and watching them in their yard. They are...

How Old is an Old Seed?

So I had some old Italian Flat leaf Parsley and Genovese Basil herb seeds sitting around and I wanted to try them in our hydroponic system to see if see if I could get them to germinate. I waited two weeks and saw nothing so into the trash bin...

Honey from Our Own Backyard

We Become Beekeepers Four years ago we decided to get a couple of bee hives and have some honeybees. I had met a couple of people around the area that had them and were keeping them in their backyards, so I knew we could have them too. We had...

January Backyard Honeybees Upkeep

I want to share some things with you that we will be doing with our honeybees every month in order to keep the hives healthy and thriving. Let me tell you a little about our set up. We live in Ft. Worth Texas on a little ½ acre lot....

Water Not Only Good for the Garden but Good for the Body

We all know how important it is to drink water but if you are anything like me it is so easy to forget to get enough of it to drink throughout the day. But there can be some dangerous consequences if one isn’t mindful of keeping hydrated especially with...

Weather & Gardening

Weather Phenomenon… If you have been paying attention to the weather over the last few years you are aware of the weather issues that the United States has endured. One coast floods and the other coast has forest fires with the Midwest farmers facing problems feeding their livestock and...