Category Archives: bottle fence

Broken For You

Posted on January 2, 2011 by jkmcintyre


Broken for you, by Stephanie Kallos, is a wonderful book I just finished reading.

Broken for you, by Mother Nature, is what happens to the bottles in your bottle wall if you don’t cap them. Continue reading →

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My fence is having an erection

Posted on July 30, 2009 by jkmcintyre

… or maybe my cucumber plant is just happy to see me?


Gardening isn’t often funny, so I couldn’t pass this up. Continue reading →

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‘Bin Composting?

Posted on July 22, 2009 by jkmcintyre


Finally! I took on the compost corner, strewn about by scratching chickens, and turned it into a tidy system. I’d been struggling with what to do about composting since we moved in. This would be my first opportunity to make compost, not just have food ever-decomposing in a large neglected pile Continue reading →

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The Garden Gargantuan

Posted on June 24, 2009 by jkmcintyre

OK, no stories cause there’s too much going on. Instead, photo overview of happenings ’round the homestead. Click on each photo to see it enlarged.

Cherries!!! Another few weeks and they’ll be ripe – but I’m snacking on them already.

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