Quarantine Homesteading

The friends I’m talking to online are all rediscovering the “lost” arts of cooking and gardening along with us during this lockdown.  We’re all finding “new” (old) ways to live sustainably.  It’s like we’re all homesteading alone together.

Hopefully some of these positive habits will linger on long after this is over.  Now if we get to the point where we’re making homemade toilet paper, we’ll know we’ve gone off the deep end.  It could come to that, if we don’t continue to persevere with sheltering in place and social distancing.  Jobs and entertainment won’t help us if we’re all dead.

Speaking of culinary arts, here is E’s latest fabulous homemade-from-scratch pizza (dough and all).  It even had anchovies, which we both love!  Also fresh homegrown oregano.  Trust me, it was good.  Soon I hope to be providing all the veg components myself.

To that end, yesterday I planted my tomato transplants in the main veg bed and my newer bed, pictured here.  I’m growing beefsteak, homestead, san marzano, and cherry roma.  I knew it was going to be raining today, to help them along.  Next up will be my eggplants and peppers.  Farther south, they’re getting more tornadoes and severe weather, so once again we dodged that bullet.

And of course, here are your obligatory flowers.  It’s starting to look very cottage garden around the house, which is my evil plan.  You’ve probably gathered by now that “manicured” or “formal” are not in my vocabulary.  It goes against everything I believe in.  The wilder, the better.  Just be glad I don’t do selfies.

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