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My journal of following the LCE plan.
Garden Planning For My LCE Plan
Posted 01-15-2009 at 08:57 AM by katlupe
We are having a very brutal cold spell here in NY right now. It makes our chores much harder. Keeping our two woodstoves cranking all day long and barely banking them back at night. That means we have to keep feeding wood to them. Also have to give our horses extra hay to keep their body temps up. I have more energy now so it helps to be able to do more work so my husband doesn't have to do everything. I did hurt my arm yesterday lifting a full pot of boiled potatoes off the stove. I mean I could hardly lift it and it was not an unusually big pot. I grew over 250 pounds of potatoes last year and haven't bought any in the store so far. Since I am not eating them, I have been cooking up a whole pot of them and can add them to my husband's meals pretty quickly since they are already cooked. When I make breakfast, I can make some into homefries for him. Or for supper I can heat a few up to add to his plate. He's happy with that. He does alot of physical work all day here and needs food to keep him going. He gets where he has no energy then after he eats, he's good to go!
I have been studying my seed catalogs that fill my mailbox every day now. Now I am planning on checking the carb count of every vegetable I plant. We have raised beds and try to plant all the vegetables we need for the whole year. Eat fresh from them all summer and fall. Can, dry or store in the root cellar all the others for the late fall, winter and early spring. Most of my plants are heirlooms so I can save the seeds. I like to find new varieties and add them to our garden. I also harvest many wild plants and fruits from the land around me. I live deep in the state forest so there is so much around us. I harvest plants for medicinal purposes also and make tinctures, creams, infusions and teas from them also.
I have been trying eat healthier and live a healthy life. One reason why we chose to live out here secluded. Our water is pure. Nothing added to it. No power lines or any type of lines strung above our house polluting our air. We did have to bring the telephone line underground and under the road to get here. But that is the only one. Our gardens are organic as much as can be. Our horses' manure is our fertilizer and we don't know what pollutants might be in their hay or feed. Everything else I do for them is natural. That's why they look so good and are so healthy. So getting rid of the processed foods has been pretty easy for me. I already had been making my own mixes instead of using store bought ones anyway. Like puddings, corn muffin mixes, cream soups, cake mixes, etc. Course, now I don't use most of them anyway. After reading Dr. Atkins' book, I knew he was so right about that and the sugar. There are so many things that seem okay when you first start using them......that you think, "Oh this is great. It's easy. Tastes good." then you use it all the time......many years later you find out it wasn't what you thought. And now you are used to using it and don't want to give it up. I am very careful about what I use.
This week I am making my menus in advance for the week. That way I can just buy those ingredients and prepare my meals from the plan. I love new recipes but have not felt much like cooking because of the weather. It is stressful here right now due to it. Lots of shoveling and animal tending to. Plus getting wood in the house and keeping the stoves going and clean. Hard to even leave here right now as we have no other back up heating system. I have put the menus on my "To do" list for today though. So hope to get it done.
katlupe
I have been studying my seed catalogs that fill my mailbox every day now. Now I am planning on checking the carb count of every vegetable I plant. We have raised beds and try to plant all the vegetables we need for the whole year. Eat fresh from them all summer and fall. Can, dry or store in the root cellar all the others for the late fall, winter and early spring. Most of my plants are heirlooms so I can save the seeds. I like to find new varieties and add them to our garden. I also harvest many wild plants and fruits from the land around me. I live deep in the state forest so there is so much around us. I harvest plants for medicinal purposes also and make tinctures, creams, infusions and teas from them also.
I have been trying eat healthier and live a healthy life. One reason why we chose to live out here secluded. Our water is pure. Nothing added to it. No power lines or any type of lines strung above our house polluting our air. We did have to bring the telephone line underground and under the road to get here. But that is the only one. Our gardens are organic as much as can be. Our horses' manure is our fertilizer and we don't know what pollutants might be in their hay or feed. Everything else I do for them is natural. That's why they look so good and are so healthy. So getting rid of the processed foods has been pretty easy for me. I already had been making my own mixes instead of using store bought ones anyway. Like puddings, corn muffin mixes, cream soups, cake mixes, etc. Course, now I don't use most of them anyway. After reading Dr. Atkins' book, I knew he was so right about that and the sugar. There are so many things that seem okay when you first start using them......that you think, "Oh this is great. It's easy. Tastes good." then you use it all the time......many years later you find out it wasn't what you thought. And now you are used to using it and don't want to give it up. I am very careful about what I use.
This week I am making my menus in advance for the week. That way I can just buy those ingredients and prepare my meals from the plan. I love new recipes but have not felt much like cooking because of the weather. It is stressful here right now due to it. Lots of shoveling and animal tending to. Plus getting wood in the house and keeping the stoves going and clean. Hard to even leave here right now as we have no other back up heating system. I have put the menus on my "To do" list for today though. So hope to get it done.
katlupe
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i'll bet your garden this summer is going to be manificient! thanks for sharing that "slice" of your life, kat. reminds me that i'd like to find a way to do some more gardening next summer, too.
Posted 01-17-2009 at 01:08 PM by Goddess
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We, too, are planning our garden, but ours is fairly small, since we have a small yard, but we are able to have tomatoes & peppers in our Earth Boxes (they are great for little yards or apartment dwellers!), and we'll do squash, both zucchini and yellow, perhaps a few beets, lettuce, green beans, and dill. We don't have a lot of success with cucumbers in this climate, it's too hot & dry for them. And, not being native Texans, we don't care for okra, so we won't clutter the garden with that. There is nothing like eating something you grew yourself - it just tastes so much better than the store stuff. The only thing that tastes better is when a friend gives you surplus out of their own garden!Posted 02-06-2009 at 02:40 PM by QueenMama
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