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I have eggplant growing in the garden thanks to the new fence Brian made me for Mother’s Day! In prior years I could only grow it on the balcony; the deer and such would eat it up.

Brian made me a fence for the garden! It’s very nice and keeps all the various fauna we have roaming the yard at night. I’m talking deer, raccoons, rabbits, possum, etc. This is a big help!

I have such an abundance of mint! I make tea, sachets, mojitos, all sorts of things with it. I also like to pull the excess and put them in glass bottles for decoration. They look so pretty against the windows.

I’ve just signed an urgent petition at Avaaz.org to protect whales. Read more below, or click this link to join me in signing: http://www.avaaz.org/en/whales_72hrs_left/98.php?CLICKTF —– From the site: Dear friends, Right now, the International Whaling Commission is meeting in Morocco for a final vote on a proposal that would legalize commercial whale hunting for the [...]

Garden shot progress; some garden stuff, honeydew melon, eggplant. corn, tomatoes.

Pick it! OMG we have so much mint in the garden, it’s ridiculous. I picked a bunch and packed up for my tea. There are a lot of things you can do with mint, but step one is to pick it. It will grow back in abundance so no worries! LOL next up…more things with [...]

After hacking up weeds and stuff we spread a thick layer of autumn leaves in the garden. Next will be a thick layer of compost, then dirt. blogged:

I pulled lots of mint from the garden, going to transplant these to the side of the house in a bit.

Seedlings happily growing along! peas, cabbage, spinach, lettuce, and more.

Brian is building a big compost bin. We’ll have the current compost ground space for leaf and grass, yard stuff and use this one for kitchen scraps, paper, cardboard. We were having trouble with wild animals like raccoons plowing through the ground pile and spreading garbage everywhere.

We had a nice snow cover this winter, but I did not turn the leaf pile even once since last fall. Thus the leaves are still not compost, or even half done. Well the bottom layer is ready but still. Going to wet down and commence to turning and stomping.

Well you know around family Earthprint every day is Earth Day, but I do want to acknowledge what we’re doing special today. Or rather what we planned to do in celebration, which was to have a huge yard sale and recycle some of our gently used things (ok some are hard-used LOL) we no longer [...]

I just love these! The first flowers of the year. Daffodils are just such a wonderful and lovely sign of spring

Step 1: Gather some dandelion flowers! Step 2: Cut off the heads! Step 3: Pour hot water over them and steep! Step 4: Enjoy! Dandelions can be used for many things, including tea! In my experience the flowers are best in spring. One of the benefits of dandelion tea is that it works as a [...]

To participate in Earth Hour, at 8:30pm your local time, turn off your lights for one hour. That’s it! From the Earth Hour site: Be part of a movement to demand action on climate change. Vote Earth by turning off your lights during Earth Hour and recruit your friends, family, neighbors, school or workplace. Make [...]