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Attempting The High Desert Garden
When my husband and I bought our beautiful home in the high desert we were so excited to put our acreage to work! We both grew up in Northern California, so having an abundant garden was a breeze. We soon found out that we also had taken if for granted. Attempt #1 We moved in June, so by California standards, our garden was late already. Our first order of business (after unloading the trailer) was getting plants in the ground. I found out later that in our gardening zone the soil temperature isn’t high enough to plant until June. Turns out we were actually on track. There was a perfect…
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Wire Compost Bin
This post may contain affiliate links. Please see disclosure and privacy policy here. Making Dirt From Scratch I decided to start with compost once we decided that our version of clean eating was going to include growing or raising as much of our food as we could. From there we started looking at the financial aspects of making these changes. It can be very expensive to set up gardening beds, green houses, chicken coops, and livestock pens all at once. When my husband started talking about turning our dry lot pasture to an irrigated field I knew we would need A LOT of organic matter; manure, mulch, and compost. We can…
