OK, OK, so that was a terrible play on a old country song, but it's kinda how I feel today. Now mind you, I'm not a petty person by nature...usually... but I have to say I did get a good littl...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2013/05/farming-when-farming-wasnt-cool.html
Been a busy couple of weeks on the farm and somehow I don't feel like I've gotten anything done. The main project that I've been working on has been our irrigation ditches. They were neglect...
We have some serious structure building on the farm that will need to get done over the summer and that means lots of wood and building materials. So what's a couple of frugal types to do...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2013/04/old-garage-recycle.html
Well I'm appalled at myself for my delay in getting a new post up. I do plead for forgiveness however as I have been insanely busy and unfortunately many of the things that I would like to do hav...
I mentioned a little while back that I was fortunate enough to get to be teaching a class in Vegetable Gardening Basics coming up just next week with the University of Utah's Lifelong Learning ...
A friend of mine linked to a really interesting article about fire the other day and it "sparked" my curiosity. I know, fire - the oldest of mans arts, how interesting could it be right? Well, i...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2013/01/upside-down-fire-and-efficient-energy.html
You may remember me mentioning in my last post that I would have some great new news to share with you very soon. Well I do! The University of Utah lifelong learning program has asked me to be...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2013/01/lifelong-learning-vegetable-gardening.html
Well the holidays were great for us and I did manage to watch a number of the videos from this series although I haven't yet documented them. I've not gotten a lot of feedback on these reviews s...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2013/01/permaculture-course-video-6.html
Hi again... For all my friends in the US, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. I took the last couple of weeks off to complete a couple of house projects that we needed to get done b...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/12/permaculture-course-video-5.html
Let me just take a minute to share with you a link to an amazing new Permaculture video that Permaculture Guru Geoff Lawton has made available just recently. Geoff Lawton, if you're not famil...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/11/great-new-geoff-lawton-video.html
Short run down on this video. It was one that, while it had a lot of good information, I didn't feel like an of it was really new stuff, mostly it was an opportunity for the instructor to garne...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/11/permaculture-course-video-4.html
Well, it's been a little over a week since the last post and I've been hard at this course I'm trying to work through. As I get into it, I am beginning to think that this whole course, if it con...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/11/permaculture-course-video-3.html
I've watched a second video in the Permaculture series and it was great! After the slow start of all the class business that needed to be covered the instructor, Dr. Hooker, really just jumped r...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/10/permaculture-course-video-2.html
As I mentioned in my previous post , I've been really leaning towards taking a more permaculture-centric approach in the development of our new property. I know that I want to develop the proper...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/10/permaculture-course-video-1.html
Although I have not, and by all accounts will not, do much work on our new "Homescale Farm" this year. I still continue to focus a lot of back burner brain power on what it is that I'd like to ...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/10/beginning-permaculture-investigation.html
Could the word "Gardener" just be an old name given to the "bad hunter" of the tribe? Sort of an ancient way of saying "don't quit your day job"? Maybe, maybe not. But I am starting to wonder. T...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/10/gardener-ancient-term-for-bad-hunter.html
So Wednesday morning begins the season for muzzleloader deer in Utah and I have a tag this year. It's the first time that I will be trying it out. Not hunting, but hunting with a muzzleloader. It...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/09/muzzleloader-deer.html
Yep, I married a smart ass. Well OK, to be fair, I probably CREATED a smart ass... but hey, the potential had to have been there right? Today she was digging through the .50 cent bin at the ...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/09/i-married-smart-ass.html
Since we moved in on the first of June, there's been a ton of goings on around the new place. As you can tell the outside of the house, which was built in 1969, has had significant updating and ...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/09/new-house-progress-photo-blitz.html
I have so much bringing up to date that needs to happen that it's absolutely ridiculous. If you're one of the few that follows me on facebook you might have some small idea of the chaos that w...
Well, as best as I can manage, I thought it was about time for an update. Since last post, we have mostly gutted our basement and kitchen areas, have at least partially rebuilt the kitchen and ...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/07/chaos-that-is-our-happy-home.html
Just a real quick note, mainly because it was pointed out to me that I had not been keeping up with my comment moderation - I know you didn't mean to call me out, thanks for keeping me honest th...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/05/bare-minimum-connection.html
Well, I figure it's about time for an update... We closed on our new home, I like to call it our new ”farm” but since we're not really living there, nor growing anything there it's kind of ...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/05/update-on-remodel.html
As you can imagine, even though we have not taken ownership of our new house, I could keep my mind from working on plans, or at least ideas for plans, for the 2+ new acres of land I will be takin...
http://apaetoday.blogspot.com/2012/04/permaculture-way-to-go.html
It's amazing how much stuff, even when we felt that we'd downsized quite a bit, that we still had. It seemed like every load we took to our apartment storage area we proclaimed that the next lo...