by John Johnson | Aug 4, 2021 | Ducks, Videos
Our backyard ducks get a cucumber snack this morning. We have a ton of cucumbers growing in our gardens today and while everyone knows ducks love peas for snacktime they will eat lots of other delicious garden treats. This cucumber was sliced up into spears and then...
by John Johnson | Aug 2, 2021 | Compost, organic gardening, Soil Amendments
Soil Amendments Soil amendments enhance the productivity of the native soil. There are a large number of different soil amendments available to adjust the nutrient and mineral levels in your gardens and food forest. However, before you start adding tons of different...
by John Johnson | Aug 2, 2021 | Food Forest, Growing Vegetables, Videos
It’s early May and everything is leafing out and full of blooms. The garden and food forest are in full spring mode. Can’t wait to get to enjoy all the marionberries and peaches that are to come. We wrap up with a little tomato planting. We put in...
by John Johnson | Aug 2, 2021 | Ducks, Ducks, Videos
Sometimes those personal watermelons just aren’t very good. This one was not ripe at all even though it looked good, it was very light pink and kind of hard in the middle. While the duck girls didn’t annihilate it as fast as a very ripe melon they still...
by John Johnson | Aug 2, 2021 | Food Forest, Videos
We grow a bunch of comfrey in our urban homestead food forest. They grow very well in our climate with no watering necessary and with the variety they do not spread by seed or run super far, it stays clumped up where we plant it. It is an excellent source of flowers...
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