Walking the Primrose Path and Whistling
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bloodsong1Because it's not as easy as it looks.
Researching for Shadows of Kyoto was fun and involved a lot of online digging.
Researching for my second novel is sucking me into a world of earthworms and crop rotations and I'm already eyeing my postage stamp and quietly plotting. There's going to be heavy labor involved once the cucumber and carrots are harvested. I'm spending money on seed catalogs and debating the best use of all the paving stones, bricks and other large rocks I have to expand my garden. IDK (Indestructo-kiddo) and I have already agreed tomatillos will be grown, if I can find the variety that tastes like apples.
My salt crust method did not work, so now I need something else. I actually pulled out two tree seedlings today while weeding the unused bed section where the drain spout is. My plan (hahahaha) is to use what I learn from working my little section in the novel, expanded accordingly. There's "food forests" and "how to have a complete farm on one acre of land" and "10 acres produce over $100,000 income in Ontario". Shetland sheep! Jersey cows! Why aren't Cayuga ducks getting any love? I don't want chickens!
I've requested an interview with my CSA owner, but it's a busy time for them, so I don't know if or when I'll get it.
In the meantime, my depressed heroine is going to start with four leaky metal buckets in the kitchen.
Researching for Shadows of Kyoto was fun and involved a lot of online digging.
Researching for my second novel is sucking me into a world of earthworms and crop rotations and I'm already eyeing my postage stamp and quietly plotting. There's going to be heavy labor involved once the cucumber and carrots are harvested. I'm spending money on seed catalogs and debating the best use of all the paving stones, bricks and other large rocks I have to expand my garden. IDK (Indestructo-kiddo) and I have already agreed tomatillos will be grown, if I can find the variety that tastes like apples.
My salt crust method did not work, so now I need something else. I actually pulled out two tree seedlings today while weeding the unused bed section where the drain spout is. My plan (hahahaha) is to use what I learn from working my little section in the novel, expanded accordingly. There's "food forests" and "how to have a complete farm on one acre of land" and "10 acres produce over $100,000 income in Ontario". Shetland sheep! Jersey cows! Why aren't Cayuga ducks getting any love? I don't want chickens!
I've requested an interview with my CSA owner, but it's a busy time for them, so I don't know if or when I'll get it.
In the meantime, my depressed heroine is going to start with four leaky metal buckets in the kitchen.
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