It’s All Green!!!

Filed under: Garden — Will @ August 30, 2007

TomatoesSo the Fall is quickly approaching and the garden is really coming into it's own now. It's getting a little tense too. The lean-to green house is overgrown with tomatoes (and mutant growing sun flower), fingers are crossed hoping they will ripen before the weather really starts to turn. On one plant alone we counted about 50 tomatoes!

Salad is still growing strong despite the frequent hail storm and the constant grazing by the household, we plan next year to cut back on the amount of greens grown and focus more on vegetables that can either be stored or persevered. The Strawberries that were planted in the spring have been dug up and replanted in a half wine barrel to make way for a new smaller, salad garden bed with a wind proof and heat retaining roof that has yet to be devised, more on that project later!

Another project that's also in the planning phase is a small wind turbine for the chicken and seedling shed to cut the cost of keeping the chickens warm and going over the winter. It's also an experiment to become more self sufficient on our energy and less dependant on the utilities company, not to mention it's a much more green solution.  

Preserving for Another Day

Filed under: In The Kitchen, Preserving — Will @ August 27, 2007

Gone Foraging

Filed under: General — Will @ August 10, 2007

Super Size ME!!

Filed under: General — Will @ August 1, 2007
Squril Attack!

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The Mountain Small Holder is a running documentary on our attempts to become more self sufficient in a less than optimal environment, 9,000ft in the Rockies of Colorado!