Soil Testing: What is it? Soil testing is collecting a sample of the soil where you plan to garden and testing it for nitrogen content, phosphorus, potash, and it’s ph level. Then based on the results, you amend (or change) it so you maximize the health of your plants. Good soil means a good garden; bad soil means a bad garden. Simple. We are planting a flower garden for our new honey bees, so I decided to use a Rapitest Soil Test Kit. There are also many different options on Amazon. Soil Testing: How to do it? Soil testing is…

Life Update & Watercolor It’s time for a life update and some watercolor. These are sort of like therapy sessions with my imaginary therapist. All At Once I can’t explain the relief I feel on New Year’s Day morning. Does anyone else out there in internet land understand? The newness. The hope. Anticipation. But also, the looking back. We humans always hope for less hard. We look for the good and easy. Don’t we? It’s weird. We hope for the simple, uncomplicated, zero struggle-but every single time, we find that the good is always mixed in with the hard. “That…