Farm
What we do working around the farm. How our lavender is planted and harvested.
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Top 10 Best Selling Garden-Friendly Fashion For Your Wardrobe
Garden in style with these beautiful clothing selections
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How to Quit Your Job and Start a Farm
Where to begin when starting a farm
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What is the Best Fertilizer and How To Use It
Sometimes knowing what fertilizer to use for what can be overwhelming. I know when I first started learning about all the different things you can add to your soil I thought I’d never understand it all. What is Fertilizer The great thing about your own garden is that once you know what your garden needs then you can just focus on that instead of trying to understand everything. Over the years we’ve tried hundreds of different fertilizers and we’ve found a good balance for our particular soil. The first thing you need to do is test your soil. I use these testers. Once you’ve found out you soil composition you…
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Top 5 Most Brilliant Ways to Save Money on Gardening
Gardening can be an expensive hobby. But it doesn’t have to be. In fact, gardening should be virtually free if you do it the old fashioned way. These top ten brilliant hacks can help you save money gardening. Here are a few different routes to take when considering a budget friendly garden. Ask a Gardener First, consider asking gardening neighbors for seeds or extra plants. Gardeners are notoriously generous when it comes to plants. I know I personally plant too many seeds in the spring and then I don’t have enough room for all my plants. I end up giving away seedlings every spring. If you’re looking for perennials then…
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The Best Plants to Plant in Spring and Fall
dependent on your area's Frost Dates and the type of plant you are planting. However, there are some basic answers to the best plants to plant in the Spring and Fall
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How to Harvest Your Lavender From Your Garden
Lavender is an amazingly versatile plant that every gardener needs in their plot. It is medicinal, edible, fragrant and, beautiful. You can do so many things with your lavender. Just look around on our website to see all the many lavender projects and recipes that you can do. It’s already the first part of July and as always time is flying by. We just did our first lavender harvest of the year and we’re so excited to share it with you. The smell of fresh cut lavender is one of the best. I love this time of the year. Lavender This years harvest is from our 2 and 3 years…
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Preserving Green Beans
This years green been crop has been amazing. Every other day I go out and the plants are fully loaded. On Monday Prosper and my mother and I went out to do a down to the ground picking. By which I mean we got down on the ground and picked for about 45 minutes and look at that haul! We planted Hulk bush beans and they have been our best harvest. The beans are huge without being lumpy, starchy, and old. They are fresh and crispy and so yummy. Because we harvested so many we had to bottle them so we can have garden beans all winter long. You can…
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The Best Guide to Choosing the Right Lavender Varieties
There are so many lavender varieties that it can be a little bit overwhelming to navigate. We are here to help you understand which lavenders to choose for your own garden. Lavender Varieties Let’s start with a really quick basic biology lesson. Lavender is part of the lamiaceae (Lay-mi-a-see-aye) family it’s genus is lavandula and there are 47 know species of the lavandula genus. Okey dokey, so what does that mean? It means that all lavenders are part of the mint family and that there are 47 types of lavender to choose from. And they are all different. Lavindin There are also hybrids of each lavender called lavindins or lavender…
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Pea Fences
Pea Fence BasicsI love the look of cute little pea plants coming up out of the ground. Especially if they are accompanied by some woven or arched pea fences. Every spring, very early spring, I prune our fruit trees and I save the tall straight branches that grow each year. With these branches I build my sweet little pea fences.Build your own!The woven and the arched pea fences together are complimentary to each other and draw the eye. I get so many comments on my pea fences I thought I’d show how easy they are to put togetherThe woven fence starts with the branches stuck into the ground and about…
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Top Four Essential Oil Distillers
I am in search of the best home-use essential oil distiller. Now that may sound like an unnecessary expense in this day and age; why distil your own herbs when you can buy essential oils everywhere? But here are my reasonings: 1. If I make it myself then I know what’s in it, 2. I love a new project, 3. I grow my plants so that I can use them and 4.have you seen the prices of some EOs? They are getting ridiculous. Now, I know that buying a distiller can be pricey. But there are some out there that cost less than a 15ml bottle of Essential Oil and…
