For any of my local friends and neighbors...I dare you to come by our house and pick some of our vegetables! Elle and I are out there every morning or just call me. It's one of the nicest parts about having a garden...sharing! We have an abundance of kale, spinach, lettuce, nopales and cauliflower right now. Someone just dropped off a huge bucket of oranges to us yesterday and I'm still trying to figure out who it was. I love gifts of fresh produce, thank you!
My goal is to create a waste-free environment by gardening, composting, & making products from organic and upcycled materials. All of my products are sewn with my most cherished heirloom, my grandmother's 1958 Singer. My prints are hand-painted from the plants in our garden. Iris is our desert tortoise we adopted from the Living Desert Reserve who lives under the mesquite tree in our garden.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
blooming chamomile and green beans!
We spent most of the morning today in our garden; it was in need of some love since I've been at my sewing machine lately and really only out in the garden to water. I was happy to find that our chamomile plant is blooming and our green beans are ready to start picking! There's nothing better than eating fresh green beans right off the plant. These plants are very hard to hurt, since they can thrive in almost any garden soil. And they are a good source of Vitamin A, calcium and iron. I wish I would've planted more chamomile; my inspiration came from an organic farm my sister and I took our kids to in Carmel Valley. They had a large chamomile garden that you walk through barefoot. It was one of the best days hanging out in that farm with the girls.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
LOVE BUG!
As the weather has become warmer, ladybugs have infiltrated our garden. This is a good thing! So I read up on them. Here is some information I found in the Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening by J.I. Rodale: "When entomologists made serious study of the beetle, they came up with a startling economic fact: it lives on scale, soft-bodied insects and their eggs and larvae, but it never damages plants, truly one of nature's gift for man's benefit. Fortunately the ladybug is no vegetarian, her diet being strictly confined to soft-bodied insects such as aphids, mealy bugs and their kin which are destructive to crops in many localities. Biggest enemy of the ladybug is the poisonous insecticide. Like all other forms of wildlife beneficial to man ladybugs ask only for protection and food."
Thursday, March 18, 2010
corn!
Last weekend we planted our first row of corn. It was so nice to do this as a family. It's really amazing what comes out of a 2 year old's mouth, especially when gardening, She's learning so much about plants and it mellows her out when that sudden condition called the terrible 2's tries to break loose. I think our garden relaxes all three of us; it's my favorite hour of the day.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Our garden...loving today's rain
Friday, March 5, 2010
MY FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE!
I've been invited to show my product line at a local festival tomorrow. I'm very excited since this is my first event I'm involved in with my new company. "Things are going to start happening to me now!"...quoting Steve Martin when he found his name in the phonebook in 'The Jerk', one of my favorite movies.
Here's the info on the event:
Wildflower Festival
at the Santa Rosa & San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Visitor Center
51-500 Highway 74
Palm Desert, CA 92260
Saturday, March 6 2010
8am - 4pm
free admission
(760) 862-9084
http://www.desertmountains.org
Here's the info on the event:
Wildflower Festival
at the Santa Rosa & San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Visitor Center
51-500 Highway 74
Palm Desert, CA 92260
Saturday, March 6 2010
8am - 4pm
free admission
(760) 862-9084
http://www.desertmountains.org
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