IG: Pak Choy 🌱 Well, it WAS what was for dinner, last night. Last night we ate a pastured crockpot cooked chicken with fresh herbs from the garden (chives, rosemary, thyme), smashed organic red potatoes with coconut cream, butter, and more herbs from the garden (rosemary, chives, thyme) and this beautiful pak choy, freshly harvested from the garden and gently sautéed in some of the chicken drippings. As it gets closer and closer to summer and my plants pop, I’m incorporating more and more of my garden into my meals and I LOVEEEEE ITTTT

Pak Choy— #itswhatsfordinner 🌱
Well, it WAS what was for dinner, last night.
Last night we ate a pastured crockpot cooked chicken with fresh herbs from the garden (chives, rosemary, thyme), smashed organic red potatoes with coconut cream, butter, and more herbs from the garden (rosemary, chives, thyme) and this beautiful pak choy, freshly harvested from the garden and gently sautéed in some of the chicken drippings.
As it gets closer and closer to summer and my plants pop, I’m incorporating more and more of my garden into my meals and I LOVEEEEE ITTTT 🙌🏼✨
#freshAF

IG: Ok so no one will ever be as excited about composting as me and that’s ok but I had to share my latest addition to the family— my @joracomposters tumbling composter!! 👏🏼✨ I’ve been using a dumpy @cityofto plastic black composter for a couple years now. It broke in multiple places and I had to, literally block in the the front of it with BRICKS to prevent raccoons from getting in there and making a giant mess. So every time I needed access to mature compost, I would have to remove about 10 bricks and then shovel my butt off😆. But I UPGRADED🙌🏼 and now have this insulated, animal-proof tumbling compost that is easy to both fill and empty when it matures. It’s metal + insulated, so it keeps the compost hot (so it matures faster) and can be used throughout the winter. It doesn’t stink whatsoever and it looks sexy. Plus it feels like I’m spinning a Bingo drum when I spin it and that’s fun. “G-16, G-16”😝 If you don’t know much about compost, composting is going full circle with your garden; turning spent organic waste into gourmet food for plants. Compost is a garden’s best friend. It’s full of all the nutrients that plants need to thrive, it mulches and regulates soil moisture and is also an amazing way to recycle spent garden waste, food waste and yard waste. I assembled this composter last week and just started using it. If you can’t tell, I’m pretty excited about it. It I were Oprah, this would FOR SURE be on my list of ‘Favorite Things’ for 2018. Do you compost? 😁😁😁

Ok so no one will ever be as excited about composting as me and that’s ok but I had to share my latest addition to the family— my @joracomposters tumbling composter!! 👏🏼✨
I’ve been using a dumpy @cityofto plastic black composter for a couple years now. It broke in multiple places and I had to, literally block in the the front of it with BRICKS to prevent raccoons from getting in there and making a giant mess.
So every time I needed access to mature compost, I would have to remove about 10 bricks and then shovel my butt off😆.
But I UPGRADED🙌🏼 and now have this insulated, animal-proof tumbling compost that is easy to both fill and empty when it matures. It’s metal + insulated, so it keeps the compost hot (so it matures faster) and can be used throughout the winter. It doesn’t stink whatsoever and it looks sexy. Plus it feels like I’m spinning a Bingo drum when I spin it and that’s fun. “G-16, G-16”😝
If you don’t know much about compost, composting is going full circle with your garden; turning spent organic waste into gourmet food for plants. Compost is a garden’s best friend. It’s full of all the nutrients that plants need to thrive, it mulches and regulates soil moisture and is also an amazing way to recycle spent garden waste, food waste and yard waste.
I assembled this composter last week and just started using it.
If you can’t tell, I’m pretty excited about it.
It I were Oprah, this would FOR SURE be on my list of ‘Favorite Things’ for 2018.
Do you compost? 😁😁😁

IG: I really don’t think I have room for all my plant babies but I’m gonna try to find it the best I can. Containers everywhere, anyone? Feeling grateful that I seeded way too much and have extra seedlings because I’ve had to replace plantings destroyed by squirrels and raccoons multipleeee times already 🤦🏻‍♀️ I swear I’ve replaced this one cucumber plant that keeps being eaten or trampled 7 times! And all the tops were eaten off my sunflowers 🤬 and all the leaves off my kale and chard… Coexisting with wildlife is just a part of the gardening gamble, though (unless ALL of your beds are caged, then it’s just coexisting with buggies🐌🐛🐜). What are you most excited to grow this year?

I really don’t think I have room for all my plant babies but I’m gonna try to find it the best I can. Containers everywhere, anyone?
Feeling grateful that I seeded way too much and have extra seedlings because I’ve had to replace plantings destroyed by squirrels and raccoons multipleeee times already 🤦🏻‍♀️
I swear I’ve replaced this one cucumber plant that keeps being eaten or trampled 7 times! And all the tops were eaten off my sunflowers 🤬 and all the leaves off my kale and chard…
Coexisting with wildlife is just a part of the gardening gamble, though (unless ALL of your beds are caged, then it’s just coexisting with buggies🐌🐛🐜).
What are you most excited to grow this year?

IG: MARIGOLDS: a staple in all edible gardens, in my humble opinion. 🌼🌼🌼 Not only are they and they bloom forevs in a variety of spectacular colour combos, but they’re also loved by pollinators and are NATURAL PEST DETERRENTS (and, rumour has it, deterrents to animals like bunnies and deer). They make a great companion plant to basically any crop in the edible garden and add that colour and pizazz to the veggie patch. Most varieties are edible, too! Do you interplant marigolds in your garden? 🌼🌼🌼

MARIGOLDS: a staple in all edible gardens, in my humble opinion. 🌼🌼🌼
Not only are they #cuteAF and they bloom forevs in a variety of spectacular colour combos, but they’re also loved by pollinators and are NATURAL PEST DETERRENTS (and, rumour has it, deterrents to animals like bunnies and deer). They make a great companion plant to basically any crop in the edible garden and add that colour and pizazz to the veggie patch.
Most varieties are edible, too!
Do you interplant marigolds in your garden? 🌼🌼🌼

IG: I almost ALWAYS bring this guy inside before I leave home but I couldn’t find him and had to jet to a meeting so I left him for about 4 hours. When I came back, he was so eager to go inside that he was talking loads and walking alllllllll over my car

I almost ALWAYS bring this guy inside before I leave home but I couldn’t find him and had to jet to a meeting so I left him for about 4 hours.
When I came back, he was so eager to go inside that he was talking loads and walking alllllllll over my car 😂
#AfricanLionSafari #Nev #whatagoof