Today is Monday

Today is Monday and I will begin using my pre mixed bread to make homemade bread as needed in the house. I am super excited!!!

Here is a picture of my set up when I was making my mix

wish me luck!!

On another subject, we have a magic window in our kitchen. Plants love to grow and flourish, so we decided to test this magic window. 

mint, basil and seeds from the garden

We can't wait to see what happens!

For now Ciao :)

let it begin.

I used to blog and write drafts and never publish them. I am super shy about sharing my life and what we do. So as I publish new things I will try to remember that this is like a public diary. A place for me to keep track of my crazy life, with 4 cats, a husband and a toddler (for now). New things today.... Crochet, Knitting, Sewing, Cast Iron, trying to figure out how to cook almost everything from scratch and keeping my sanity.



Please note... photography is not one of those things... I am not a photographer so I will not boast about my super photography skills because I do NOT have them.  We leave that to my bff.


So here we go.

Step One!

Peasant bread. Which should be called "PLEASANT BREAD" because it is such a pleasure to make.

Here is the link to the recipe

http://www.alexandracooks.com/2012/11/07/my-mothers-peasant-bread-the-best-easiest-bread-you-will-ever-make/

The Only thing I do towards of the baking process is a open up my oven and put butter on the top of my loaves. It is pretty AMAZING!


The reason I am posting about this today is because I have plans to prep Mason jars (did I mention I LOVE MASONS JARS <3 nbsp="" p="">
So here goes my test for the week. I will bake every other day using a mix. so next Wednesday I will hopefully prep again. 

Shed Construction Day 3

Walls

Doors

Roofing

Sky View

Inside View

Front

Back

Complete!!!!!

Fine

While we wait...

for the seeds to germinate more lets take a tour of the yard before we started doing anything in the yard.

When you walk into our little yard the first thing you will see is our Chimmenea, this area was created about 6 years ago, as our first large yard project. The tan large grasses are our natural barrier to outside eyes and our natural kindle for the fires pits we have.

If you were to take a left you will see the original raised bed and barbecue area.

As you continue forward towards the back of the garage you will see fire area #2 as well as the more private section of our yard.

There you see the original raised bed that was put there about 9 years ago.

The picture below is the view of the other side of the house, this is the area where we play outside games and break the neighbors windows :)There is also a front yard and the other side of the house but I have neglected to take pictures of it but it is still too cold to be out there that long.

The seedlings are getting bigger, and I couldn't be more happy, but the true happenings will be going on later today... wish me luck!

Let the Growing Begin

We have received the seeds!!!!! I didn't take pictures but we planted them about 1 week ago. Here is what they look like now. Unfortunately I took these picture with my cell phone so they are not super clear sorry....

Pretty much of them are now little cute stems you can really tell what kind of plant they are based on their look it is absolutely amazing.

More Pictures soon to come as they start to get bigger!

Bring on the Seeds

In december, we had been actively reading and checking out different websites for our new garden adventure. In order to ensure that we were making the right decsions, we took our time and tried to plan out as much as we could. Before anything we had to get seeds. Today my mom brought me a magazine called "Farmer seed and Nursery." We looked through it and made a nice list of things that we wanted to plant. Once we had the list we were able to talk about how we were going to plant our new kids. This is what we decided....

Sweet Bell Peppers

Detroit Dark Red Beets

Butternut Crunch lettuce

Tendersweet Carrot

Straight 8 Cucumbers

California Wonder Pepper

German Gian Radish

Bloomsdale Spinach

Crimson Sweet Watermelon

Burpee Stringless Green Bean

Early Alaska Pea

Beef Steak Tomatoes

Farmer's Monster Tomatoes

Howden Pumpkin

Biblical Fig Tree

Hanging Strawberries

Sweet Basil

Dill

Leeks

Parsley

Gourmet Lettuce Blend

Spinach

Sunny Boy Tomatoes

Zuchinni

Edamame

We are so excited to be doing this. Not too sure how or where we are going to fit all of this stuff in, but knowing my mom and I, nothing will stop us.

Introduction

I am creating this blog in order to share my urban gardening experience with all of my friends, family and all who are interested . I also would like feed back and certainly stories and tips for gardening of this nature.

A little history...

I am a 23 year old graduate, with a music education degree and a passion for fresh produce. I am a vegetarian that is infinitely tired of eating shopping center produce. I have been a new comer to the farmer market scene and questioned why was it I couldn't have my own garden with my own food. The crazy idea really started in the summer of 2008. my mother and I decided to pull all of our house plants to the back porch and enjoy a small, private, jungle oasis. We enjoyed it so much that we decided to do the same thing in 2009. We not only had the house plants but also gave home to a few vegetables. We had Basil, Cucumbers, Tomatoes and Dill. We supplied the rest of our diet with the local farmers markets that year.

Unlike 2009, this year was a little bit different. We took our gardening experience to the next level.