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Cityfolk Farmers: A Most Joyful Fall
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Country life has been a great change of pace from life in the city. Here you will find Blog posts and stories * Recipes * Critters * Garden * Life in the Slow Lane. Monday, December 22, 2014. A Most Joyful Fall. Rain, beautiful rain. It came in gently and has lingered for weeks, sometimes with winds and thunder, sometimes constant and with a promise to give that long deep drenching the earth needs. Meanwhile, fall has come, and winter. We were given a 26 lb Cinderella (baking) pumpkin and it was my f...
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Cityfolk Farmers: The Real Deal
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Country life has been a great change of pace from life in the city. Here you will find Blog posts and stories * Recipes * Critters * Garden * Life in the Slow Lane. Sunday, July 26, 2015. It was a simple plan to beautify the exterior and protect it from wear. We had interviewed and hired a siding company because they could preserve the original siding and install a vapor barrier and new siding over the old stuff that was flaking away and needed to be protected from further decay. The north wall is the la...
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Cityfolk Farmers: Mom's Brass Bell
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Country life has been a great change of pace from life in the city. Here you will find Blog posts and stories * Recipes * Critters * Garden * Life in the Slow Lane. Saturday, May 2, 2015. Today's story is about a bell. A brass bell. My mother carried it along with her for her life, and when I was old enough to be responsible for it, it was passed on. And in my 20's, I remember tossing it in a box and donating it to Goodwill. Out of the blue a couple months back, we travelled to the neighboring small town...
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Cityfolk Farmers: Flavor Up!
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Country life has been a great change of pace from life in the city. Here you will find Blog posts and stories * Recipes * Critters * Garden * Life in the Slow Lane. Tuesday, October 7, 2014. It's been the kind of growing season that will become folklore: tomatoes planted on March 31st are still going strong in October. Peppers and Japanese Eggplant, too. 16 qts fresh tomatoes, quartered in a stock pot (adjust recipe for volume). 1 whole head of garlic. Fresh pesto if you have it. In a sauté pan, add clea...
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Cityfolk Farmers: Audrey
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Country life has been a great change of pace from life in the city. Here you will find Blog posts and stories * Recipes * Critters * Garden * Life in the Slow Lane. Sunday, November 2, 2014. I like to rise and stretch awake as I gaze out the back window at the garden. Even now, as the plants are half crusty brown with little green struggling tomatoes, it is a beautiful testament to the soil and sun, and the rinky-dink drip system the Hubs and I installed to keep water flowing in the drought. Picture Wind...
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Cityfolk Farmers: Long Between Posts
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Country life has been a great change of pace from life in the city. Here you will find Blog posts and stories * Recipes * Critters * Garden * Life in the Slow Lane. Sunday, August 24, 2014. My first love is living my days following our little journey and second is writing about it, and I miss when life becomes too hectic to do either of those things. But do the gardens and fruit trees permit excuses? No To catch the worm, I need to find the time to be ready when they say it's time. The slavedrivers.
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Cityfolk Farmers: Work in Progress
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Country life has been a great change of pace from life in the city. Here you will find Blog posts and stories * Recipes * Critters * Garden * Life in the Slow Lane. Saturday, August 23, 2014. There is something beautifully unkempt about a work in progress. The dust that clings to our boots as we tromp through the yard is tracked back into the house. The weeds we appreciate because at least something's green on the back grass. Everything partners here and everything plays a role. The work part of 'work in...
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Cityfolk Farmers: Tailgaters
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Country life has been a great change of pace from life in the city. Here you will find Blog posts and stories * Recipes * Critters * Garden * Life in the Slow Lane. Monday, May 25, 2015. I decided to work on the Friday before Memorial Day but I was still out of sorts with my decision when I hopped on I-5 headed south for the 40 minute commute. The road was packed with vacationers, big rigs, boats and trailers and quads in trailers all behaving themselves in the slow lane, making an early getaway. So much...
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Cityfolk Farmers: Water Muscles
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Country life has been a great change of pace from life in the city. Here you will find Blog posts and stories * Recipes * Critters * Garden * Life in the Slow Lane. Sunday, July 6, 2014. People over plants is the new water conservation mantra. And we know the reality of spending thousands of dollars and thousands of hours of blood, sweat and tears on our yards that we aren't going to give up without a fight. These are real life dollars lost. Hobbies and livelihoods. Curb appeal. The idea in a drought is ...