Here is Alaska, growing warm-season vegetables is hard, if not impossible. I’ve been trying corn for the last 3 years, and I’ve finally harvested my first ears:
Don’t laugh at their diminutive size. They have less carbs that way.
In …
Alaska Living
How to make raspberry-currant mead
Hey everyone,
I just put up my recipe for making mead. We finished picking 20lbs of wild currants about a week ago, and I have my first of two six gallon batches fermenting right now. I opened a bottle …
How to make home-made soap
I just finished putting together a tutorial about making your own soap. You can check in out here.…
Dipnetting
Here in Alaska, we are allowed to go dipnetting for salmon. Dipnetting is nothing more than putting a net into the water and waiting for a fish to swim in. While the odds of catching a fish might not seem …
Bears like chickens too…
We came home from the local 4th of July parade to a peculiar sight: our large, bear-proof trash can was upside-down in the driveway. We took a look and sure enough, a bear was trying to get in. You can …
Chickens
Beyond gardening, I am raising chicken for the first time. In mid-May, I picked up 20 Cornish cross chicks from the local hatchery. One died a couple of weeks later, though I’m not sure why. I think it had internal …
Garden Update Part 2
Having just finished weeding my garden in the rain, I thought it might be a good idea to add a picture of its current state…
Garden Update Part 1
It’s been an incredibly busy summer, and as such, my blogging has suffered. This is my desperate attempt to catch up on what has been happening in the garden:
I planted in mid-May, which is …