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HOME & GARDEN
Refreshing the Keyhole Garden in Winter
January is the perfect time for cleaning and repairing the keyhole garden and transplanting cold-hardy seedlings for late winter/early spring 2025 harvest
Grocery Store Gardening: Roma Tomatoes
You can grow a whole vegetable garden for pennies using seeds collected from grocery store produce. $1 of Roma tomatoes will deliver 100+ lbs of fresh tomatoes!
Can You Compost That?
You can turn almost any organic material into rich, nutrient filled compost, but some things take longer than others. Here’s what to know and how to do it
Crafting a DIY Haven Through Backyard Photo Journaling
Online scrapbooking and photo journaling isn't about creating perfect images, it's about discovering and documenting the small wonders that surround us daily.
Batch 24 Fermented Hot Sauce Pepper Addition Number 7
A nighttime cold snap brought frost and the hot peppers dropped their flowers, so this is the last fresh pepper addition for Batch 24 fermented hot sauce.
Fall Maintenance for the Bee Hotel
Now that fall is here, it’s time for a little maintenance on the bee hotel before the native pollinators move in for the winter. Here is the checklist:
FOOD & RECIPES
Batch 24 Hot Sauce Pepper Addition Number 3
Heat shocked the Cayenne peppers, so my third addition of hot peppers to Batch 24 of the fermented hot sauce will be mostly Hinkelhatz and Fish peppers
Giardinera: How to preserve summer vegetables and enjoy them all year long
Don’t let the bounty of your vegetable garden go to waste! Make Giardinera (aka Italian pickled vegetables), a tasty way to enjoy garden harvest all year long
Old Fashioned Soft Pretzels Recipe (easy)
Chewy, delicious soft pretzels are easy to make and every bit as good as the ones from a shop. Here’s my quick and simple recipe.
AROUND THE ACRE
Live Video Stream
What do chickens and ducks do when no one is watching? Find out with ChickenCam! Camera feed is live on weekends from 9AM to 4PM Pacific.
Visit the ChickenCam »
Weathercam
Live camera shot facing west toward the Pacific Ocean, about 7 miles away.
FRESH AT SAGE’S ACRE
HOME & GARDEN
Refreshing the Keyhole Garden in Winter
January is the perfect time for cleaning and repairing the keyhole garden and transplanting cold-hardy seedlings for late winter/early spring 2025 harvest
Grocery Store Gardening: Roma Tomatoes
You can grow a whole vegetable garden for pennies using seeds collected from grocery store produce. $1 of Roma tomatoes will deliver 100+ lbs of fresh tomatoes!
Can You Compost That?
You can turn almost any organic material into rich, nutrient filled compost, but some things take longer than others. Here’s what to know and how to do it
Crafting a DIY Haven Through Backyard Photo Journaling
Online scrapbooking and photo journaling isn't about creating perfect images, it's about discovering and documenting the small wonders that surround us daily.
Batch 24 Fermented Hot Sauce Pepper Addition Number 7
A nighttime cold snap brought frost and the hot peppers dropped their flowers, so this is the last fresh pepper addition for Batch 24 fermented hot sauce.
Fall Maintenance for the Bee Hotel
Now that fall is here, it’s time for a little maintenance on the bee hotel before the native pollinators move in for the winter. Here is the checklist:
FOOD & RECIPES
Batch 24 Hot Sauce Pepper Addition Number 3
Heat shocked the Cayenne peppers, so my third addition of hot peppers to Batch 24 of the fermented hot sauce will be mostly Hinkelhatz and Fish peppers
Giardinera: How to preserve summer vegetables and enjoy them all year long
Don’t let the bounty of your vegetable garden go to waste! Make Giardinera (aka Italian pickled vegetables), a tasty way to enjoy garden harvest all year long
Old Fashioned Soft Pretzels Recipe (easy)
Chewy, delicious soft pretzels are easy to make and every bit as good as the ones from a shop. Here’s my quick and simple recipe.
AROUND THE ACRE
Live Video Stream
What do chickens and ducks do when no one is watching? Find out with ChickenCam! Camera feed is live on weekends from 9AM to 4PM Pacific.
Visit the ChickenCam »
Weathercam
Live camera shot facing west toward the Pacific Ocean, about 7 miles away.