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Spring at The RiverRest

transplants for garden

There’s alot going on here at The RiverRest this spring. We’ve been busy getting the garden ready, preparing the soil and starting transplants. It seems like every year it gets bigger.

We had to find ways to keep the chickens out of the garden. All of the Bamboo that Charley and Tony cut and hauled here really came in handy. We used it to build a fence around the main garden and the Potato Patch. So Far So Good. We’ll be publishing our stick fence building experiences as soon as we get around to writing it. In the meantime, here’s some photos of our new bamboo fences.

gardenfence

gardenfence2

Last year we built a primitive stick fence around the new Strawberry Patch. We used sticks, limbs and twigs from the woods. It lasted the Winter but was in need of some repairs so we decided to try something new with the bamboo.

strawberry fence

Probably the most exciting thing to happen is with the chickens. Red, one of our hens, went broody. She started sitting on a few eggs so we jumped at the chance to let her hatch them.

I’ve got many things I want to tell you all about. Like about how our dog Pearl has become an egg retriever, making Dandelion Jelly and what to do with KnotWeed. So, please bear with me. I’ll get around tuit, soon, I promise!

May 8, 2009   No Comments

Simple living, Living Free

As I was enjoying my morning coffee, listening to the birds, chickens, and the creek as it tumbled across the rocks I began to feel a bit poetic. Susan and Tony suggested that I post it so here it is. I hope you enjoy it. [Read more →]

June 23, 2008   1 Comment

What Would You Do Then?

What would you do if in the morning when you awoke there was no electricity, if in the morning electricity as we know it no longer existed, what would you do then? There would be no lights, radios, televisions, computers, or telephones. Gas pumps, elevators, cooking stoves, nor vending machines would operate, what would you do then? [Read more →]

June 10, 2008   1 Comment