Windy Acres Diary

Started in January, 2010, this blog documents our eco-friendly and sustainable gardening practices. Along with our dogs, cats and wild critters that live on our small farm, we try to leave as small a human footprint as possible.

Sunday, August 23, 2020

Stray Kitten - Happy Ending

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A couple of weeks ago, our 14 year old granddaughter came over to ask if we had seen a small kitten.  She had seen it beside their house (ne...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Vegetable Broth

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While cooking a meal, I normally have a bunch of veggie "scraps". Examples are carrot peelings, celery leaves, beet stems, parsle...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Baby Birds

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This spring we were honored to have a pair of Eastern Phoebes select our front porch as a nesting site.  Phoebes are  small flycatchers.  Th...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Spring Things

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Back in March I wrote about the way we are starting seeds this spring.  After we downsized and moved to our new house, we lost our little gr...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Gearing Up for Gardening

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We gave up our small greenhouse when we moved to our smaller place.  However, that doesn't mean we cannot continue our gardening activit...
Friday, March 13, 2020

New Raised Bed Garden

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2019 was a dismal gardening year here.  The reason:  too much rain!  The ground stayed saturated for weeks at a time and, because our main...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Cats and Raccoon

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Last fall we started feeding a couple of stray cats in the pole barn.  I have hopes of getting them tame enough that we can catch them and g...
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