It’s officially spring around here and I’m kicking off the season with a large raised flower bed. In this post I show you how to build a raised flower bed and plant summer flowers with the Aivituvin raised wooden planter.

Farm to Table recipes and Homemade Natural Living
It’s officially spring around here and I’m kicking off the season with a large raised flower bed. In this post I show you how to build a raised flower bed and plant summer flowers with the Aivituvin raised wooden planter.
· Sides & Snacks
Packed with nutrients and delicious to eat, kale has been one of my favorite vegetables for over 10 years now. Join me as I show you how to cook kale flowers. I also share our sautéed kale florets pasta recipe. It is the perfect healthy and delicious vegetarian dish for those warm summer nights.
· Natural Gardening
It’s spring time! Learn how to start a garden from seeds in this simple tutorial for beginners. I was always pretty scared of gardening, worrying that I would make a mistake and months would go by without a single bloom. But what you have to remind yourself is this is nature! Seeds are meant to grow in nature, all you have to do is encourage and foster them. So I wanted to share my collection of tips on starting your first garden indoors from seeds. It’s really easy, so grab some dirt and your favorite shovel and let’s get gardening!
· Main Dishes, Soup
It is summer at the homestead and we’re starting to get our first tomato blooms. One of my favorite things to do in the summertime is make tomato soup! This delicious, creamy, and simple tomato soup recipe is healthy and so easy to make. You will want to start a garden just so you can eat soup all summer long!
· Handmade Home Projects, Natural Gardening
We have two different gardens in our small homestead backyard. This year we chose to use a galvanized horse trough for a planter box and build a cedar wood stand under it. That way, we’ll have one planter box on the deck and the other on the ground. Come see how we built a stand for our trough planter box and filled it to get ready for spring at the homestead.