We had no time for bookwork this afternoon. Instead, we harvested. The children picked two wheelbarrows of tomatoes, all the red and orange ones in our patch. Then they discovered a tomato hornworm. It is huge and oh, so beautiful. I tried to feed it a tomato leaf, but didn’t realize that the horn was at the […]
Garden
The Gardening Homeschooler
“It is not economically feasible,” said my friend, “to grow your own food.” That may be so for the average family, but when we’re growing food, we’re also growing kids. We and our five children, ages 8-18, raise pumpkins, spinach, plums, asparagus, tomatoes, and more. We enjoy the food, but also are hugely enriched by […]
Weekly Wrap Up: Mostly Gardening
In my life this week … We finished planting the garden! The final task was replanting the peppers that never came up…and since it’s so warm, we even put in some eggplant. I hope they will produce. We may still need to replant some of the kale and Brussels sprouts, though. Our Manchurian apricot trees, […]
Fit Mommy Friday
This week we opened our pool…after fixing it up, from sand to liner, and discovering that our well-pump needs replacing. The children love it, especially after an hour of warm garden work. I’m feeling well enough to swim across the pool, once, rather than just walking around as usual. Miss 8 exclaimed in amazement, “Look, […]
Party Pictures
On a beautiful Thursday, we had a party. Miss 18 concocted this delicious fruit punch. I think I had 6 glasses full, it was so good! We had some special snacks…. Apparently the asparagus roll-ups look like little babies in blankets. The other ones were pickles; not everyone likes asparagus. Our gardens were beautiful that day. […]