Welcome to our blog!
We live in a small urban homestead in a property that is 5100sqft in total. We have tried to use as much of our space as possible and within this blog you will find a wide array of topics covered from gardening to baking and how we utilize our space to live the life we want.
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Creating a Park Strip Pollinator Garden
What to do when you have a large garden space but it happens to be between the road and the sidewalk?
I’ll admit that at first I had no idea what to do with the space either. It’s 5 feet wide by 68 feet long and all I could think was that I wanted it to be low maintenance. Well that changed quickly when we cut our lilac bushes to expand the backyard. Without the lilacs, where would all the bees go? So low maintenance quickly became high maintenance, but it’s so worth it.
Designing A Perfect Garden
Landscaping has challenged me tremendously. In my quest to figure out what to do for our space I read several books on landscaping (standard, edible, and permaculture), read dozens of internet articles, and searched high and low for inspiration online…And every time I came across that I would turn my head to the side like a confused puppy. My theme is to grow food and have a space for pollinators and my color palette is whatever color I like.