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Hybrid Homesteading...Just the Ticket

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Category: Getting Back to My Roots | Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:36 pm

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I'd LOVE to just move out into the woods or the mountains, into a little cabin or an old house. My preference is a nineteen teens house, or even a Victorian. It's not that I don't love this house, because I do. Still, the thought of being secluded..no, nestled in nature's arms is very enticing. It's definitely in my future!

So...I do hybrid homesteading in the middle of semi-suburban Pasadena, MD. It does have its advantages...Pure homesteading might involve a generator, coming up with my own wind power, or something. I'd also probably have to be even more careful with electrical consumption.

Yesterday I thrived in my little not-quite-this, not-quite-that world. I puttered in the garden, harvesting pumpkins, early sunflower seedheads,a huge green pepper, lots of poblanos and jalapenos, a batch of green beans, two baby summer squashes, herbs and a lot of Malibar spinach. I then proceeded to dry, freeze, or eat them!

With the dehydrator running non-stop like you'd expect of an air conditioner, I am filling the cupboards fast. Fig crisps will be next. There's no better end to a day like that, than a plate of salad that has nothing in it but my own garden tasties.

Tomorrow I will have to step out into the world (to pay for some of these things!), then it's back to getting the fall garden off the ground. That'll be my third or fourth try at a decent fall garden. Here goes!


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Jewell2009 wrote on Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:55 pm:

Good luck with the fall garden and your pantry sounds delictable :)

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