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Weekly Wrap-Up: Gardening, Gravity, and Geometry

In my life this week…  We had days of rain, and now a few days of sunshine.  That translates to emerald grass, blooming tulips, blossoming trees, and gardening.  The Little Misses planted onions, Miss 13 seeded carrots, and the rest of us did the prep work.  Today we hope to finish planting all the early seeds […]

Frugal Seed Starting, Homeschool Style

Each year we plant a huge (think several thousand square feet) garden.  Of course we need seedlings, so we start them ourselves.  It’s a great learning experience and, when the seeds come up, it can be so exciting. Over the years we’ve learned to do this more and more efficiently and frugally.  The children have […]

Weekly Wrap-Up

This was Remembrance Week.  We finished reading aloud a book about the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands, wrote and drew about the past, and attended Remembrance Day ceremonies.  At these ceremonies, I always think about my Dutch parents, freed by Canadian soldiers.  I am intensely grateful to the veterans and those who suffered with them, […]

Freezing Peppers

We grew half a triple row of peppers in our garden, and when the harvest sales were on we bought two bushels more at an incredible price.  So what do you do with almost three bushels of peppers? Why, you freeze them, of course, and it is so easy! We just washed the peppers, split […]

Today We Ate a Beet

Today we ate a beet.  Tomorrow and the next day we will eat more of it.  There may be some left the day after that, but I promised the children we will not eat beet for Thanksgiving supper. The beet was so heavy I carried it from the garden on my shoulder, and so large […]