Am I Better Off Now than 4 Years Ago?

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Mark Zeiger

The content you’re looking for is no longer here. We’re finally beginning to shut this blog down, to remove old content.

We’ve chosen to start with essays that are available elsewhere. Specifically, this article has been edited into our book, Sacred Coffee: A “Homesteader’s” Paradigm. The book is available in print, as an audiobook, and in several eBook formats. It contains edited, improved, and expanded versions of essays that used to be available for free on this blog, and new material as well. You can learn more about it, and order it here in your preferred format.

 

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Harvesting the Garden

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Mark Zeiger

This weekend we’re harvesting much of the garden. It’s been a largely disappointing year because of the cold, wet weather that the Lower 48’s draught locked over us. Even so, we got some impressive artichokes, some decent carrots (which the local carrot thief never found), and only slightly fewer potatoes than last year. No pumpkins, but I can’t complain—we’re lucky we got anything at all!

artichokes Haines, Alaska

Some of our artichokes, the largest of which was about the size of a softball (and delicious!) (Photo: Michelle Zeiger).

potato harvest, 2012

Some of the 49 pounds of potatoes harvested this weekend (Photo: Michelle Zeiger).

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Some of our carrots (Photo: Michelle Zeiger).

There’s still a lot to do if we want to get most of the harvest in before we take off on a big trip in early October.

Incidentally, today is the Autumnal Equinox in our area. Although the official equinox, when daylight and darkness balance, occurred Saturday, the 22nd, we strike our light/dark balance today.

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