Years ago I had milk kefir grains.  We made kefir most days, and we did this for years.  Other than the cost of the milk, it was very cheap....

I grow a few African violets, I think they are nice little plants.  I tend to propagate them by leaf cuttings, and sometimes seeds or even f...

I received a few emails recently from people saying they were unable to leave comments on my blog.  I'm sorry about this but there is no...

The other day I was doing something in the garden and I moved a pot that was filled with soil.  Under the pot were a few tiny lizard eggs.  ...

Very simple Kombucha (чайный гриб) continuous brew recipe  I wrote an earlier blog post on kombucha SCOBY  and described what a scoby is com...

Hedou micro dwarf bok choy ( Brassica rapa ) is one of the smallest, and fastest growing, varieties of bok choy.  It is sometimes called an ...

For a few years we made чайный гриб (pronounced as chai-knee grib).  This translates to tea mushroom.  The beverage itself is sometimes know...

Red jelly bean succulent ( Sedum rubrotinctum ) is green with a slight reddish tinge for most of the growing season.  When stressed, however...

A few years ago when we lived on acreage we found a baby crested pigeon ( Ocyphaps lophotes ) that had fallen out of its nest.  Crested pige...