All Blog Posts Tagged 'gardening' (4)

This week my kids came running into the house screaming “Snake!” They had been playing in the back yard and while looking for the lacrosse ball, they lifted the sled they left under the magnolia tree a week ago (what they were doing with a sled in mid-summer is another topic). … Continue

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an amateur organic gardener with many good intentions and a very modest yield. I give my little vegetable patch lots of love, but the veggies are very slow to grow, and although some of my friends have been boasting home-grown produce for weeks, I harvested my first few cucumbers, tomatoes and zucchini just this week. I love watching the plant in all its stages, and I’m especially fascinated to see how a fruit evolves from the flower. In the case of the zucchini,… Continue

Life is all about choices. Take the recently completed presidential election. Millions of Americans were offered a ballot filled with multiple choices. From those choices, we analyze, ponder, discuss, weigh the pros and cons, then make our selections. While a national election is a major event that challenges our decision-making prowess, the personal choices we all make every day of our lives are equally, if not more, important.… Continue

Today's post on Almost Fit is an introduction to my family's new experiment: We've started our own organic garden. It's been a project that we've wanted to try for some time now, so this year we finally made it happen. My reasons for this are important: a) we'll eat better, and within a budget, b) we're imparting a… Continue