by Ingrid | Mar 13, 2015 | Gardening, Homestead Life, Uncategorized
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 Ingrid | 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 Ingrid | Jul 17, 2014 | Gardening, Homestead Life, Uncategorized
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 Ingrid | Jul 17, 2014 | Gardening, Homestead Life, Simply Domestic, Uncategorized
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 Ingrid | May 20, 2014 | Gardening, Knitting, Uncategorized
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...