Martha’s Kitchen Garden
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From Six and a Half Acres to a Patio
Gardening with what I got…I swear I have a plan for all that cardboard, I just don’t know what it is yet…
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Starting an Urban Garden in Harlem, NYC
Shocker, right… but here I am, back where I came from, all my animals rehomed, even Bobo, and Arthur, who John adopted. As I write this, I see a dove perched outside my streetside window. It’s spring, and…
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Siesta Meditation on What Matters
I’m on a mission to clear clutter in my home, and most importantly, in my brain. In that spirit, I have been meditating on my garden aspirations, and letting go of feeling guilty about chores that I assigned…
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Bobo Gets Brushed
One thing I have learned about Great Pyrenees dogs, is they shed a lot of fur. A lot. Bobo is about two years old now. He hates a bath, but he doesn’t mind a brushing. Yesterday, my son…
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Funky Skunky
My first response in this video shows how naive I can be. The short story being that it would cost hundreds of dollars to relocate the skunk, and my only real choice was to dispatch the skunk in…
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Good (Mushroom) Morning!
What I did see was this Phallaceae, commonly known as a Stinkhorn mushroom, (and probably some other names too…) According to PictureThis, one of the most useful apps on my phone, Stinkhorns come in a variety of shapes…
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Food, Shelter, Fencing
It has dawned on me that the hierarchy of my daily necessary tasks flows like water from feeding and sheltering my companions who depend on me, down to fencing, which then leads to gardening, which includes managing the…
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Pool Garden Update on a Rainy Morning
Every morning when I take care of all my animal companions, rain, wind or shine, I wind up checking on the gardens afterwards. This time of year anyway, because there is so much to watch and a checklist…
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Introducing Dopey
I was just going to rent him for a few weeks, but by the time Cody left with Jayce, I had bought him. He’s a member of the family now…
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Planting Okra Starters in a No-Dig Garden
I have been gardening without tilling or digging for about three years now. I do dig, to plant starters, but I haven’t turned over any of my garden beds for awhile now. This morning, I planted all the…
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Good Morning Between Storms
Last night we had a mother of a thunderstorm. Bobo hates thunderstorms. He broke out somehow, despite the electric wire, and was running around practically begging me to put him back up in his stall. So now I…
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Some Sunday Morning Videos
Last Sunday morning I didn’t take time to make any videos, but I had fun play/working with the water flowing from the pond into Langston Creek, which runs all the way to the Reedy River. I’ve been on…
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Morning Chick Check
The She Shed, and the Yard Sale are both progressing…
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Freedom Garden Update
This third year garden hosts a mixture of annuals, perennials and animals as it changes, like life does. Please join me in the audio garden tonight, Tuesday April 30, at 8pm EDT, for the L&BH Hour for Readers…
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Chasing Frank
My son, John, wanted to name them Bart and Fart, but I refused, so he’s Frank, always the most trouble…. John wasn’t around this time, when I asked Robbie and Ryan to move the goats to the old…
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Chick Check Day 3
Honestly, I think it’s Day 3. I don’t think I heard their cheeping until Day 2. I decided to convert my tool shed/ dump shed into a bird nursery, since I plan to infuse my chicken flock with…
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Baby Muscovy
This lady found the perfect nesting spot under the deck where the hawks can’t get to her babies. I heard them chirping and put them in this box to keep them safe. Mama wasn’t going to leave them…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Water where there didn’t used to be
Muscovy in a swale after a heavy rain.
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Good Morning
Wild geese sharing the pond with semi-wild Muscovies this morning.
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Muscovy Nesting Season
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Good morning
Good morning
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One Woman on a Mountainside
The truth is that one sixty year old woman with a shovel can’t move a mountain, but she can do a whole lot to assist the soil, herself, her neighbors downstream, the birds and the bees. She can…
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Good morning
The Muscovies have broken off into two tribes. The semi-wild pond family that loses all its eggs and babies to predators (so far) and the locked- under-deck family that doesn’t want to leave, and so far, raises their…
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Good morning
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Good morning