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More Cooking… catching up
In the week way back in late February before I started chemotherapy, I planned great meals. My last meals before taste would be taken away– and at that point I was expecting nausea, too. I prepared by purchasing Cream of Wheat … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, food, garden, recipe
Tagged garden vegetables, ovarian cancer, Tender, vegetables
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Pizza!
And when we got home, I visited the garden, where I found many tomatoes! And a few more sad summer squashes… and lots of basil! I knew what I wanted to make, and if you know me, you would have … Continue reading
Thriving Prairie
This is a twofer blog day… Because even as my vegetable garden has struggled, with no effort at all the prairie has been thriving. Variety, beauty, all sorts of goodness. We’re moving into goldenrod season now, so I thought I’d … Continue reading
Struggling Garden
This has been a tough year in general for gardening. Between chickens, rabbits, squash bugs, fungi, deluges of rain followed by heat and no rain, everything has struggled. The weeds have done extremely well. I have been operating at about … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, garden
Tagged garden produce, organic gardening, vegetable garden
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Chicken Summer
These girls are having a rough summer (too). First there was a fence put up around the garden– their favorite place to hang out in the summer, whether it is getting dirt baths in the shade of the asparagus plants … Continue reading
Pests and Potatoes
If you read any book on organic gardening, you will find a section on “pests.” And the answers for best treatment of pests are these: 1. if you have good soil, you discourage bugs and diseases; 2. if you keep … Continue reading
Eating, Well
In some ways, the last ten days have been more difficult than the 18 weeks before. I’m feeling all the feelings, for example. And mostly I feel frustrated I can’t just jump up now that it’s “over” and get back to … Continue reading
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Tagged eating and chemotherapy, recovery after chemotherapy
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I Am a Modern Farmer
It is not easy to catch my husband during landscaping season, so this morning after we went on a mushroom compost expedition I had him take a few photos of me in the garden. I was able to pull up … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer and garden, community farming, homestead, modern farmer, organic gardening, ovarian cancer
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Prairie View
This is the first week since treatment started March 1 that I have not left the farm. I still go up and down the stairs several times a day and venture out to my garden and back, but I think … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, garden, prairie
Tagged alexander sunflower, beauty, cattails, prairie flowers, prairie restoration, purple coneflower, spiderwort
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Home and the Eating is Good
I got back home on Saturday and although I had a cold I needed to tend to (thank you Airborne, cold caps at night, and Tylenol now and then to make sure I didn’t get a fever), I was determined … Continue reading
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