What A Deal!
Here’s a way to get the best deal on gardening supplies. Be the last person to plant your garden!
Garden Plant Deals
Big Yield and No Weeding Gardening
Between the years of Covid and expanding inflation, you may be considering gardening. Thoughts of having to tend plants coupled with additional thoughts of backbreaking weeding and constant watering may have caused you to stop your gardening considerations.
Well, I have exciting news for you! We have a productive garden and we NEVER pull weeds or water much.
Farm Work in Cold Weather
Why Crop Rotation Works
Iowa is known for corn. US state maps have corn as an image for Iowa. If you’ve ever taken a drive through Iowa, you will see cornfields as far as the eye can see. Corn upon corn upon corn.
So why did we plant most of our farm in soybeans this year?
Prayer Flags
Tibetan Buddhists hang prayer flags high in the Himalayan Mountains. When the wind blows over a flag, the air is purified and goodwill is carried by the wind.
A Farmer’s Cure for Insomnia
I did a bit of research. According to the CDC 30-40% of people in the United States suffer from some sort of insomnia. I have a sleep cure AND a way to make your children want to do homework every night!
Farm to Table Butternut Squash Soup
Squash is easy to grow in any garden. My Iowa garden is no exception. I always have a bumper crop of butternut squash every fall. So here’s my favorite Squash Soup. This recipe makes 3 quarts! Add croutons for a dash of flavor and crunch.
Old Fashioned Cereal Cookies
I just read that the sales of cereal have risen 214%.
That’s quite an increase! I get it. If you are exhausted, and need something to eat, and you don’t care to cook, a bowl of cereal can fit the bill!
A Bike Ride in a Cornfield
Sales of Peleton bikes and bicycles are up 172% and 121% respectively. There is a revived interest in riding a bike, for exercise or as a form of transportation.
Derecho Devastation in Iowa
I was planning to post about an easy and thrifty way to can pickles that taste like expensive deli pickles.
But instead I must discuss the Disastrous Derecho (Source: weather.gov) that blew in on August 10, 2020 that has brought Midwest farmers to their knees. (We were one of few that missed devastation, where the epicenter was less than 20 miles away. We are stunned the Derecho went around our tiny spot in the state.)