One of the things I find really attractive about gardening is that there is always something happening – even at a place like Chez Siberia (where parts of the property are Zone 2 in terms of what will survive). This week was no exception. You’d think that nothing is happening in the garden here but [...]
Posts under ‘Raising It’
Bringing Spring
Sometimes, Aunt Toby is wont (yes, wont) to taking things into her knobby but capable hands and not taking ‘no’ for an answer. This year’s winter has been, for practically the entire Continental United States, one long sitting through of “Ground Hog Day”.
Awful. Miserable. Interminable.
The Little Red Hen Moves
Far be it from me to make the claim that Aunt Toby and the DH are experts at raising chickens or hatching chickens with a broody hen. Chickens, as I have noted before, are the ‘gateway drug’ of livestock raising: as long as you can keep them save, fed and watered, you are good [...]
Well, let’s not brood about it
We have a hen that has gone broody so we’re allowing her to do what is coming naturally – sit on and hatch out eggs.
If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.
Is there anyone in the world who has not seen “Avatar”? Well, if you haven’t, what I’m going to say is NOT a spoiler. For those of you who have seen it, think of the scene where Sully first sees his avatar in the tank…floating there, in the moisture….happy..peaceful..content…
This photo shows something that is [...]
It’s Later Than You Think: Order Garden Seeds Now
One good reason to order your garden seeds now: last year, seed sellers reporting running our by March.
Plant ‘em if you’ve got ‘em
Spring is months away. One way to get a little bit of spring going is to start some seeds for greens as a window sill garden.
White House Garden Enters New Season!
The White House has now installed grow tunnels on the beds in the garden!
Horseradish: From Root to Plate
How to cook, prepare and keep horseradish.
Resolved Not To Have Resolutions
A final look at the year.
Kitchen Counter Economics is a community where we can share ideas on how to save money, live more sustainably, and gain control over the stuff of daily living for ourselves and our families in the current economic environment. This started as a series of diary postings at the 
