Garden 2012

That time of the year again! We have expanded our raised beds from two to six. Big jump this year. Some things however did not get planted till late.

In the photo here you can see the chives we moved out of a raised bed and in to it’s own container. The blooms were awesome on the chive this year.

The tomato is an patio tomato, like an early girl. We bought it with fruit on it already. Is always fun to have at least one

Check out the “Our Garden” page on the top menu bar to see the new beds. Oh and we added an arbor for the grapes that were taking over our old birch tree. We had to cut it down but we saved the grapes.

My first attempt at building something like this. Did not turn out bad. And we are using the front to host some peas and cukes. Love the dual purpose of the arbor.

 

We have a lot planned to do yet. There are at least three more major projects to get done in the yard this summer. Keep checking in to learn what they are.

Now go grow something!

The Illusion of Choice?

as posted by Robyn O’Brien

http://blogs.prevention.com/inspired-bites/2012/05/03/the-illusion-of-choice/

Robyn illustrates how consolidated our food system has become in her short post. Go take a quick look and study the company chart she has posted there. It is down right scary when you think about it.

Anyone concerned about what they are eating and what companies are feeding us should subscribe to Robyn’s Facebook. She posts a lot of useful and enlightening information.

"Real Food" evangelist Robyn O’Brien

 

Robyn’s TED talk. This is a must see. Please pass this on to all your friends.

Here is Robyn’s website as well… www.robynobrien.com

January Recap

Here it is February already, almost a month since my last post. January has been a fun and exciting month for us! We spent 10 days in Florida doing a wholesale show and spending time with good friends! We had a blast! We did pretty well at the show and had great weather. Even though it was a business trip it felt like a much needed vacation! We even packed the Vitamix and had some awesome smoothies for breakfast each day!

We have just spent the last week filling orders from the show and getting caught up on parts and jobs for Gross Brothers Welding. We are finishing up tomorrow just in time to fly out Tuesday on a REAL two week vacation to the West Indies. We are off to Dominica for two weeks of fun, sun and more fruit than you can imagine! We can not wait to kick back and just enjoy ourselves.

Green goodness! Lettuce, spinach, celery, banana, apple and HONEYBELL ORANGES! Super yum!

More to come from Dominica…

Us, 2012 and Waking Bear Studio

Well here we are 1 week in to 2012 and busy as heck. We are working hard to get ready for our first wholesale show which is in Florida. We have less than two weeks till we leave. So busy we are. On top of that we received two new orders in the last two days.

I just finished another railing job for Gross Brothers Welding, and some various parts for other projects with them. What sleep?

We are back to eating about 90% raw vegan and loving it. Our smoothies have been awesome and we get up looking forward to making them. As you can imagine the Vitamix will be making the trip to Florida.

This year is looking crazy from the start. Crazy in a good way, I guess We even got an offer to have our art in an online store that sells items made from recycled material. Most of what we make is made from scrap left over from Gross Brothers and the parts they and I fab. So what the heck, I think we will see were this online store leads. Martha has been in talks with them.

Have a great day and an awesome 2012!

Challenges of Life

Life has been offering us many challenges. Some of which we wish we would not have been offered. One of those challenges occurred October 16th, 2011 when Martha’s mother passed away. Adelaide Rogers “Tad” Murphy was Martha’s best friend and biggest supporter. To say that Martha (we) miss Tad is an understatement. It is always hard to lose a parent and a friend. Tad taught all that knew her what it was like to be truly selfless. She always put others first and she always expected nothing in return. Never a bad word about anyone. This world is better because she was in it. And it would be much better if more people were like her. We miss and love you deeply Tad. Thank you God for sharing her with us.

With 2012 almost here life is about to change again. I have resigned my 11 year position so that I may pursue a vastly different job with Martha’s brother-in-law. This new job will allow me more time to focus on our own business by allowing me to work from home part of the time. In addition to the new job we are also doing our first wholesale show in Florida in January and then a second show in Vegas in June. Nerve racking but exciting.

Lastly, we are going back to our healthy raw vegan lifestyle. As you can imagine it has been hard to maintain raw vegan when your world has been turned upside down. These last few months have been very difficult to say the least. Things are finally leveling off to were we can get back in to the swing of raw. Both of us feel so good eating raw that we will succeed. We love life to much not to.

Namaste friends…

Mobile Blogging

Testing mobile blogging. So far so good. Works in a pinch.

Added photo of Martha to see how it attaches them.

(note: had to resize image via browser, was way to large)