Hi, I'm Kelly (and the handsome guy is my husband Andrew)! We invite you to join us on the journey towards natural health! I am a baby wearing, attachment parenting, cloth diapering, Essential Oil using, Paleo Eating, green smoothie drinking, soaking and sprouting, bone broth making, learning to ferment, love red wine, and won't give up my dark chocolate mama! We are getting a little more crunchy granola around here every day!
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Category Archives: Urban Gardening
Winter Garden Update: squirrels, mosquitoes, and a big move!
We planted our first square foot raised bed for the winter season about two weeks ago and the much anticipated little green sprouts are shooting up everywhere!!! Yay! Problem is that where we have the beds, which got full sun in … Continue reading
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Tagged garden, houston urban garden, Mosquito control, Organic, paleo, Square foot, Squirrel, Urban
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Herb Garden of Eden for Gena
Most of you know that my precious sister in law, Gena, has a very complicated heart disease. Though you would never know it if you met her. This girl is the most joyful little ball of sunshine you will EVER … Continue reading
Winter Garden
Here is our Winter Garden!!! We decided to build raised beds and try out the square foot gardening method outlined in Mel Bartholomew’s book. So far I really like it. It is so easy!!! Drew built three raised beds out … Continue reading
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Tagged Butternut Squash, Chard, Chinese cabbage, garden, organic garden, Radish, Raised bed gardening, Square-Foot Garden, urban garden
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Don’t be afraid to PRUNE your BASIL and make PESTO!!!
Our basil is out of control. We planted three varieties: Lemon, African, and Sweet basil. We just pruned it way back 2 weeks ago for pesto, and it has more than doubled already! Don’t be afraid to prune your basil, … Continue reading
Garden Update: killing grubs, pine needle mulch, and our FIRST HARVEST!
A few weeks ago someone said that they noticed my mothering/nurturing instincts really emerging as I started this garden w/ Drew. Hmmm. Maybe so. It is for sure way more work than we thought. But it also brings us much … Continue reading
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Tagged Bacillus Thuringiensis, garden, houston urban garden, Mulch, Pine, pine needle mulch, squah disease, urban garden, vine borer
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Squash Vine Borer INVASION… Help!
We have tried to figure out if we are watering too much or too little. All our plants are doing pretty well except our zucchini. We have already had two fatalities and one more on the way. I did a … Continue reading
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Tagged dead squash, root rot, squah disease, urban garden, vine borer
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Mamas Gone Crunchy... 