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I know...I've been away a looong time

But I've been ill. I'm recovering now, but as soon as I'm back to a hundred percent, I'll be back to writing on here. No worries. Happy Halloween/Samhain everyone.
So..it's not early. But picture time now!

Sunday I picked some dandelions that were going to seed from the place we just mvoed out of, in the city. I've collected the seeds so that I can plant them in pots (whenever I have some dirt). Hopefully the seeds will…
Lots of pictures, later today/super early tomorrow

We moved the rest of our plants and harvested what was left from our urban garden at where we used to live this past weekend! I also rescued some plants from the gutters, and will be attempting to raise some wild ones I …
Microfarming: Your health = the land's health

While it's no secret that organic's the best thing for you, and the environment -- it's not really well known that organic methods are the main centerpiece of micro-farming. The reason for this is, mainly, that when peo…
Yay! No chemicals for my plants.

OK, so after some brief research, it looks like our soil just needs building back up and we shouldn't have to worry about there being any chemicals left in the earth from the last people who lived here (they used ROUNDUP…
So, Mom's gotten some extra money from working online lately...

...and is helping me buy plants for next year! Mom bought hot peppers, regular peppers, regular tomatos, collards, eggplant and some other things. Today we got: Butternut squash Red zebra tomatos Speckled/Striped roma t…
Insomnia

I always have insomnia when cool things happen. It's been rather stormy here, so I haven't been able to go out and take pictures of plants recently put in the ground or of things, and being tired makes me sluggish. I p…
What made me want to micro-farm?

Well, the economy's what inspired the idea -- but I've always liked the idea of farming and living with the land. This new house on a little over an acre...kinda just happened to my family...and then... this idea was bo…
Scatterbrain. To-do list, and just some thoughts

I'm surprised more people don't have blogs here at healthkicker. Most people who participate here seem to be xangans! Alrighty, so what have I done already?: I've more or less crunched the numbers of the space we have a…
First entry: New House, New land...new garden

First, I guess I should introduce myself: Hi. If any of you are also xangans, it's possible that you've run across at least ONE of my xangas. I have a politics one. An icon one. One for short stories. AND a journal. I …