Tag: old fashioned

• The Kitchen’s Garden Garden!

  The gardens this year have largely been a disappointment. Crops like the potatoes, cucumbers, zuchinni, butternuts, pumpkins, and beans have either refused to fruit or  curled up and died due to that extreme heatwave we had.  But the aubergine, beetroot and capsicum all in the drought resistant frog garden are doing very well. Now that…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 10, 2012

  Bees, Farming, Flower Garden, Sustainable farming, Vegetable Gardens, Vines and Wine

  cooler, old fashioned, rain, seedlings, tomatoes, vidal blanc grapes, wine

• Sustainable/Self-sufficient/Subsistence? Labels.

  Sustainable sounds so similar to subsistence. (Please excuse the alliteration) Subsistence is hand to mouth, then the hand is empty. Sustainable involves the land and using your hands to feed your mouth while enriching the land to grow some more. Sustainable growing is by nature more upwardly mobile. Subsistence is hard to get above.  Both…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 10, 2011

  Farm Animals, Living the life

  certified organic, cow, labels, old fashioned, self sufficient, sheep, subsistance, sustainable