Jul 8
We had a brief spring that was cold, rainy and riddled with tornado warnings that guaranteed strong winds. This pretty much killed my first attempt at growing beans, but thankfully the lettuces came up beautifully and to my shock are still doing well despite our hot July days. Read more
Cassidy and I went out to my family’s house in Marine-on-St-Croix, about 45 minutes from Minneapolis. The area is surrounded by prairie and forest, and we took our dogs for a long tick-ridden walk on the trails with a stop at the Beehive my mom and her friend started this spring. Photo editorial of Beekeeping and Extending the Hive (putting more frames into the hive, or adding boxes and frames to the hive), with snippets of a wand making shop and nice garden below. Read more
This week has been beautiful here in Minneapolis, with temperatures in the fifties and sixties. People have emerged from their homes to rake lawns, plant veggies and flowers, and clean their gutters. They are already wearing shorts and tank tops and humming as they go about their day. It’s always such a surprise that winter stops at some point, and it gets warm! Read more
The snow has melted enough to uncover part of the vegetable garden, and we’re only thirty days away from the last Minneapolis frost-free date. I’ve written out my to-do lists to prep the yard, charted out where I will expand planting areas outside the veggie plot and of course, researched. Read more
Last Saturday I plowed through another book on growing food as Frank watched videos of fly fishing. It’s pretty apparent in our house that the time for good weather is desired, so we can be outside tending to our respective passions. Read more
September 1st! While I welcome the cooler weather here in Minneapolis, it was unexpectedly crisp this morning, like the Fall button had been pushed overnight. The good news is that we still have two more good months of farmer’s markets and a hefty supply of great fruits and vegetables to take home and devour or can (which I’ll be doing my first of tomorrow night!), plant garlic in the winter bed, and take stock of how the summer vegetable garden turned out. Read more
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