Wood chips everywhere!

We have joined the Food not Lawns movement, so we have been putting wood chips as mulch around the trees and in the gardens and around the gardens as paths. We are getting rid of all of our gras and going to have wood chips all over our yard.

I put these wood chips around this apple tree mostly by myself one day.

A small amount went around our lil snowball tree. 

We will be building guilds around the trees we are keeping.

This patch of wood chips goes around two of the apple trees in the back yard

Our lil guild is started here with comfrey. we plan on adding edibles around the tree. 

In the back ground you can see the other apple tree has filberts growing around it. 

This is going to be our "Back to Eden" Garden.

Back to Eden Film with Paul Gautschi

We have a lot more wood chips but we are going to need a lot more cardboard to go under them. 

This tree is going to be removed and the strawberries relocated.

This whole area is going to be mostly for annual plants and gardens.  

Welcome Home Jacob!

Jacob came back home on August 29th so we had a small family get together to celebrate his homecoming.

We drove to Idaho after Ralph got off work Friday night so that we could join in the fun. 

here are a few of the pictures I took on our visit. 

Welcome Home Jacob

A wonderful family reunited

Beth, Jim and Jacob

Siblings 

Lynn, Jim, Ralph and Beth

Mom and her children 

Beth, Jim, Mom, Ralph and Lynn

Just the guys *giggle*

Jim B, Jacob, Jim D and Ralph

Jacob grew as tall as his uncle Jim while he was gone

Mom looks so short... well she kind of is *giggle* 

Beth showing Ralph her garden. Her peppers looked awesome! 

Jacob getting back into the tech age. 

Giving his all.

Ralph's last day of working for Heinz is today. The last few days he has been working so hard trying to get the people that are left to take over every bit of information he can give them. He has been running lil meetings with all the factory people that will have to be taking over the responsibilities of fixing the RTCims guns from now on.

After he gets off work, we will be taking a trip to Idaho. Jacob Daily just got home from Paraguay last night so we are having a small reunion with the family. I can't wait to see him. It has been 2 years. I will be taking pictures and posting so keep an eye out *smile*

A new start.... tired and heading to bed

I haven't wrote a blog here since 2007 and it is now 2013. A lot has happened since then.

I want to start blogging again because I have so much to say and I have been learning so much about gardening that I want to share and keep the information for my own records.

I have sort of been blogging on my facebook page but decided to try to keep the blog alive here.
Right now it is 5:20 AM so I probably should go to bed for now but I want to come back and get started with pictures and information later.
Bye bye for now.