Author: Margie Clayman

Pinteresting Ideas

Hi there! Last week I began my growing adventures, but I sort of didn’t get around to actually getting things started till about Wednesday, so…I don’t have much to report. I am anxiously awaiting the sprouting of spinach, kale, and thyme. In the interim, I have started a Pinterest board tied to this project. Mainly […]

Should I Be Growing Something Now?

Here in southeast Ohio, winter has arrived. Wait, no, there it goes. It’s here. Nope, there it goes. Well, it’s supposed to be here, anyway. I have always thought it was virtually impossible to grow edible items during this time of the year, even when the weather hasn’t been completely psychotic. Shows what I know! […]

Deciding what to grow

The first challenge I am having is thinking about what I actually want to try to grow. It’s easy to think of plants and foods that I love, but it may not be practical to grow those, or they might look pretty but may not be foods I would actually eat a lot. With the […]

Gardening for Renters

For a long time now, I have had the intense desire to have a small farm. This sentiment was only increased after reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a book about a family that did their best to only eat their own home-grown food for a year. Although the woman obviously had some clear advantages over me […]

Social Media and the Hypnotization of the Masses

Yesterday I was scanning my Facebook feed in the wake of yet another mass shooting here in the United States. There were two yesterday plus a lock-down at UNC Chapel Hill. A friend had posted the breaking news about San Bernardino and I saw a comment that said, “Great. Something else to blame the Republicans […]

#PassionPlayers Jennifer Leggio

So this #PassionPlayers feature is neat in that it was actually this series that introduced me to Ms. Leggio. She thought it was a cool series and enjoyed some of the other profiles I posted, so I invited her to play, and here we are 🙂 Jennifer put a lot of thought into these answers […]