Our peach tree got gummosis bad, up and down the whole trunk. I've never seen globs this big. It makes be realize how the amber-preser...

Our tea plant blossomed today. It, and the lime tree we got in the spring, seem to be doing fairly well. I've had them on the shady no...

Prior to the deluge of rain along Colorado's Front Range, we had a deluge of tomatoes ripen in our garden. I canned this pile of toma...

Exciting things are happening in Wheat Ridge!  We are part of a newly developing group called Live Local Harvesters that is building comm...

Well, our honeybee colony's population has continued to decline (though I've continued feeding them) and yesterday I looked in t...

I wasn't going to post about these, but they came out so good. It is amazing that they are gluten-free, since they are so flaky and cri...

I am a big fan of pottery.  I love the handmade imperfect beauty of it.  I also appreciate that it is a functional art form—you mean I can...

Today, Wednesday, August 14, 2013 is the moment of truth for our colony. That is six weeks after we installed the colony. Honeybee workers ...

Just wanted to capture this for our record. I picked some tomatoes and a lot of purple string beans. I also harvested a number of things th...

The first set of ripe tomatoes we've gotten have all had black or brown spots on their bottoms, which looks like blossom end rot. Anna ...