Gardening, Cooking & DIY Living
When it comes to companion plants, what you plant where in your vegetable garden can have a big impact on its overall success! As you plan out your garden layout, it’s important to take into consideration the relationships that plants
Now is the time to get ready for a successful canning and preserving season! One of the best things about growing your own food is keeping it the year around for great homemade taste! For an individual who wants to start
Believe it or not, if you really want to eliminate garden weeds, you need to stop working so hard! It may sound a bit odd, but many of the weeding problems faced by gardeners are a result of working the soil
Yes, you can help repel mosquitoes simply by growing plants! It won’t be long until summer is here. Unfortunately, with the warm weather comes the nasty issue of pesky mosquitoes! Nothing can quite ruin a perfect outdoor evening like a swarm
Zuppa soup is one of the most craved soups in our household. Although its formal name is Zuppa Toscana soup at the Olive Garden restaurant, in our house, we shortened it to plain old Zuppa soup. In an effort to replicate
Our two honeybee hives at the farm provide us with so much more than just incredible honey. They also help to pollinate many of the fruit trees, vegetable crops and flowers in our garden and landscape. In addition, they are simply
If you have followed us for any amount of time now, you know that we love to try new things in the garden. And now that we finally live at the farm, we are not about to stop that tradition
So maybe corned beef and cabbage really didn’t originate in Ireland, however, it has become a meal time tradition on St. Patrick’s Day here in America. And if you are wondering about what the term corned beef means, don’t
Who knew creating homemade porch railings could be so easy? I guess we’ve never been ones to stay traditional. So when it came time to put deck railings on the back porch of the Simple House, we certainly didn’t want to
There is just something special about growing pumpkins! The tips and tricks to successful growing are the same – whether you want to grow a few pie pumpkins for delicious pies, rolls or donuts, or large ones worthy of a
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