by IngridBarlow | Mar 13, 2015 | Gardening, Homestead Life
After I collected seeds from last years herbs, I wanted to get some other seed collecting done. I always manage to hawk some seeds from my in-laws, aka the next door neighbors, and this year I decided to go for their beautiful coneflowers. A native plant that has a...
by IngridBarlow | Mar 9, 2015 | Gardening, Uncategorized
This weather has my gardening fingers starting to twitch. I feel like I am a little on the late side of seed starting, even though I know I am probably not. A local nursery told me that they plant tomato seeds on March 17th, so that is what I have been using as my...
by IngridBarlow | Jul 17, 2014 | Gardening, Homestead Life
Welcome to the garden! This is our main entrance…an old pasture gate from the property entangled with vines. The perfect way to say “come on in.” Espen and I had about a half hour in the garden this morning after we dropped Elias off at Vacation...
by IngridBarlow | Jul 17, 2014 | Gardening, Homestead Life, Simply Domestic
Jeepers! A lot has happened since I last posted. Our little girl arrived…over 3 weeks early! Rather a surprise. I was a bit worried when my water broke in my 36th week, but all turned out beautifully. Bergen Marie arrived on May 30th at 4:01pm. She weighed 5 lbs...
by IngridBarlow | May 20, 2014 | Gardening, knitting
We finally got in the garden this last weekend!! We were so anxious to be planting and I’d go from feeling on top of things, to feeling like I was weeks behind. It felt soooo good to finally be digging in!! One of the biggest projects we did this weekend, was...