November 2018

Food fermenter is here!

I don’t want to produce ANY food waste. Cooked or otherwise. Yet it happens anyway, even with careful portions. Friends come over and visit, or I forget about meals I’ve […]

Fermenting from scratch, again

I scrapped my big jar of lacto-fermented tomatoes (contents only, I kept the jar and sanitized it). It was my first project and I think I ended up contaminating it. […]

Up comes the landscaping fabric

I pulled up the landscaping fabric in the large front bed. Nothing interesting is able to grow in the front beds except for where there are cut holes in the […]

Prepping fig for winter

I’ve laid down thick layers of leaves around the fig to protect the soil and the plant’s roots. I’m starting to pile on more leaves in the spaces between its […]

Adding logs to the yard

I set logs in strategic places in the yard, where the log would either help soil to build up by catching leaf debris, or where a log would slow water […]