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Back to the Land, Toandos, WA
http://back2theland.blogspot.com
We escaped CA in Fall of 2007 to live here in wild Western Washington. Blog covers home construction, homeowner issues, gardening from scratch and the gorgeous area here.
- Added on: Oct 5th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Bonnie Story
- Listed in: Home and Garden Gardening
- Tags: country washington gardens rural quilcene toandos
Recent Posts
The Northwest light in Winter IS different
The angle of the sun up here in WA is so low at this time of year! When the low light angle gets underneath of clouds, the light pingpongs around and reflects up and down, especially off the water. I just love it. Above is Dabob Bay, with the tip of ...
Fermented cabbage becomes Sauerkraut!
Here's the next phase of the sauerkraut project! Here's a link to part one in case you didn't see how it started. In the picture below, the cabbage has been fermenting in the big crock for about 6 weeks and has really settled down. For those of you w...
Pickled Beets
I love pickled beets but had never made them before we did this. So I was excited! It all starts with the real thing, of course, fresh from the garden! We dug up three rows of beets, each about 15' long. Needless to say, we had a wagonload of beets!B...
Making Plum Leather
This particular idea for what to do with our several frozen gallon bags of delicious Italian plums came from Carol's wonderful Aunt Shirley. We were searching for ideas of what to do with the delicious, fat, sweet pear-shaped plums that did not invol...
Foggy pink sunset
On this evening, the sleepy mountain pulled her pink drapery closed, and snuggled into a blanket of fog....
Supersize Sourwood!
My heart skipped a beat to see this huge Sourwood tree (Oxydendrum arboreum) on a recent road trip to Centralia, WA. It is growing in the township of Deer Creek along Highway 3.Panicles, panicles!!! The white parts are bracts that will hold pretty wh...
