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Easy Classic French Bean Poles

Inspired by classic beanpoles at French Chateaux, these are a modern update that are easy to build. This includes directions.

Posing with the three Bean Poles I built this summer.

Foodist: Perfect Quiche

Perfect Quiche has the perfect texture, flavor combination, seasoning and is gorgeous. It makes a terrific meal anytime of the day. Perfect Quiche is so versatile. Add your favorite meats, cheeses, vegetable or herbs to make it your own creation….

The finished pies! They look and smell delightful!

Lasagna Garden Mid Summer Update

It’s mid summer at Mezzacello. Today many of the garden beds are resting after harvest. Seedling are coming along in the greenhouse and I am fortifying the lasagna beds with molecular iron and magnesium sulphate (Ironite and Epsom Salts) and…

Preservation, Seed Vegetables, and Recycling

I am continuing the midsummer harvest from the soil-free lasagna garden beds. Today it was another bushel of red potatoes, a bushel of shallots, and a bushel of red onions. I gathered them all in inexpensive laundry baskets lined with…

Preparing redskin potatoes, planted in March for storage. And shallots from a 14th Century French heirloom seed. Ooh La La!

Gilligan’s Island meets MacGyver meets Ray Bradbury

When I was a young boy I would watch the reruns of “Gilligan’s Island” every afternoon. I would laugh and enjoy the larger than life characters and situations. My favorite and most despised character was the professor. How could someone…

Bamboo, jute string, coconut fiber, steel, and Martian regolith compost in one photo.

Life on the Land and Systems Sustainability

Part of a series of blogs regarding the UN 17 SDG and my work on the farm. This one is goal 13 life on land.