Salad Season

We have been harvesting greens of all kinds from our garden. Salad season is in full bloom. Even this littlest of us is enjoying the harvest.



Hello late spring, we love you!

Giving away my secrets // Fargo Herbs

 

I know how to shop, and I know all the good places for deals, so why not share my secrets with everyone?! Today, we went to a greenhouse on a country road, just south Marengo, Ohio. My mom starting taking me here maybe 10 years ago. It's the most charming little schoolhouse that has been transformed into an antique shop and outside is the greenhouse. They have lots of Varieties of herbs at very reasonable prices. Most of their herbs are about $3. They have lots of different things you don't see everywhere, variegated varieties galore. Well worth the drive, in my opinion. This is the second time this year I have been there thus far.

Fargo Herbs 
4140 County Road 15
Marengo, Ohio

Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm
Sun 12-5pm

A Day at grandma's farm// Harvest

The days are hot, and the nights are now warm too, which means lots of time outside. We have been enjoying the sun and light as much as possible. Here's what we have been doing.

 This is Grandma, and She's the one with the farm

 Our sassy 2 year old farmer

 

 First radish harvest of the season

The country sky; pure, raw, silent, but full of sound and life

Welcome to Grandma's farm

We have also been getting our hands in the soil at grandma's farm. A newly restored 10 acre farm in the heart of Ohio. A nap-length {for a toddler, not myself, I don't have auto-pilot} car ride from home. Grandma knows lots about gardening, and is teaching us all she knows, now that we have ears that listen {She has been a gardener my whole life, but I've only taken interest in the last few years}.

{A found nest, and a found egg}


We are using a Ruth Stout form of gardening {Watch this awesome video, this lady is a genius}, laying down cardboard, right over the grass. Then a layer of old stale manure from the big red barn floor, followed by soil that is being removed around their house for grading purposes. Plants and seeds were added to soil, and then grass was collected from the yard using a grass collector. Around the barns, beds were created by removing the top soil, then planted.

Growing where you are planted

We have been reading and learning all about planting and growing. We now have a hoop house, that is really starting to {take root}. All of our cold weather vegetables are in the soil and growing wonderfully. I got a little bit of a late start with starting some tomatoes and peppers from seed {the first time I have tried either from seed}, but they are now officially growing. We even have boots to prove we are real farmers{haha}. It has been fun observing the creative mind of a 2 1/2 year old in nature, watching, learning, growing.

It's wonderful to know that there is so much to learn, right in our own backyard.