Category: Martha’s Kitchen Garden
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Drawing Myself Up from My Roots
Learning and Ignoring Negativity, Thirteen years later, I still use a simple electric dehydrator for some fruits and things, or no electricity at all, just air drying for herbs. But I also just used my new freeze dryer for the first time, and I did find it intimidating as usual, because I never even watched…
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Homemade Hay
Mostly No-Mow at Martha’s Kitchen Garden
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Working Around Obstacles
I worked obsessively to keep myself from ruminating over the many ways I tried and failed to communicate with my husband, which wasn’t always effective, because mostly I was working in isolation, my thoughts free to torture me without interruption. But I didn’t want to talk about it in my journal or with myself. The…
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Marriage and Climate Change
On June 23, 2011 there was a wind storm. Back then I wasn’t thinking much about whether it was normal to have a windstorm in June. I had only been living in the south for a couple years, so I really didn’t have an idea. Nowadays I notice patterns and think about whether an event…
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Turtle Trap
making some turtle traps and trying to find a shady spot on the pond
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good morning
one little muscovy
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Using frozen fish for bait
I don’t know if it’s going to go for a dead fish, but we will find out…
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Good Morning
Making sourdough bread is a rewarding ritual. Ingredients: time, patience, flour, water, sea salt.
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Good Morning
Good Morning from Martha’s Kitchen Garden. Thank you for your friendship.
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Bad Chickens
you look at what you did. look at what you did. that’s my mulberry tree! darn chicken!
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Good Morning
They always act they’re starving in the morning…
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Good Morning
Good morning from Bobo at Martha’s Kitchen Garden.
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Good Morning
Good morning from Martha’s Kitchen Garden
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Good morning
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Collecting Water for Ourselves and our Climate
The water bill got paid, our vegetables were eventually harvested, but I didn’t understand the degradation that was happening to the land and the creek during that whole time, how the gullies formed by the rain on exposed ground were carrying precious sediment into the creek, and the creek was sinking lower each year,