This week I’m sharing about a much longer project - the laying down of groundcover in the backyard. We went back and forth about what we...

A lot of odd things were going on with our birds this week! First the rubber egg. We couldn't figure out what had come out of our hen! ...

Moringa! What a wonderful tree. The nutritional benefits are unmatched by most any plant (high in complete protein, vitamins C, A,...

This week was super sad! We had to prune all of our new bare-root fruit trees. They put out these beautiful tiny blossoms (it reminded...

We were super excited about building an awesome Hugelkulture and easy DIY block planter…but these dreams got a tad derailed in the...

Well, everyone, this week was full of checking under quail tails. (As you can imagine, we’d been putting this off as long as possible!)....

What do you do when your greenhouse FLIES AWAY?? Building a garden in Phoenix, this isn’t really something you think about in advance,...

This week, we worked on planting some stone fruit trees in the “butterfly garden” on the east side of our backyard. This is the best...

Let’s start with food systems. Here is our quail feeder. It has worked great, from the start of this quail experiment! The only issue...

For all those parents out there, have you ever gone out in the garden and wondered who was responsible for the giant MESS that has been...

Irrigation install has proved to be (as expected) the most difficult and time-consuming aspect of this backyard remodel. Matt thankfully...

I love chickens. I never thought I'd say it, but I probably qualify as a crazy chicken lady at this point. They're such sweet...

With winter approaching, we needed to protect the newly-planted bananas, so we got a greenhouse frame to build around them. All of the...

Well, truth be told, I'm a little behind in catching up on the blog! It may be summer here in Phoenix right now, but I still need to...

Here we are, finally planting some real garden beds! There has been so much work leading up to this point, but before we could plant, we...

This week, I’m sharing about a couple of projects that have been moving along in the background as we’ve been working on the yard. These...

Let’s talk quail again! I promise we’re doing more at Sunny Side Up Urban Garden than just birds, but the birds took up a large part of...

This week we got our greens up and growing! We have a Juice+ Tower Garden, a hydroponic garden, that is going to be our source of leafy...

We finally did it!! We are the proud owners of a Tahitian Pomelo tree! And MAN that thing was heavy to get in the ground. The nursery...

Before we started the Agriscaping adventure in our backyard, we made friends with a guy who has coturnix quail and sells their eggs at...

Well, we finally did it!! After a long 3-day weekend of 12-hr workdays, about half of our trees are now in the ground. Three Days of...

We had our first big chicken milestone this week! The Phoenix summer temp has finally started dropping below triple digits and our...

Like most people, I’m a fan of naming my pets. Often they’ll get silly names, like the chickens (Charlemagne, Scoot, 9-Mil, Thor and...

This week we jumped into an adventure in raising about 50 more birds...on top of the 5 chickens we already had. For some reason we...

We have been working hard in the backyard. The initial demo is complete, and we were very lucky to be able to schedule a good mason to...

This week, we got a sneak peak trip to the Queen Creek Botanical Gardens. Justin Rohner, the head of Agriscaping Technologies, with whom...

Well, the day has finally arrived! We broke ground this weekend, so I suppose you could say we are really actually officially doing this...

Well, we did it. We took the plunge. I think maybe now we're official urban farmers, right? We have a flock of five little chickens -...

This week I want to share our new tabletop AeroGarden with you! We are blessed with an incredibly kind neighbor who is over the top for...

This week I want to share some of the little adventures we’ve had as we’ve started on our Agriscaping transformation. I keep having to...

This week we learn about sprouts, microgreens, and the value of soaking and sprouting seeds of all kinds.

We've had our first egg-citing building project! After deciding to move forward with chickens, we bought a Cumberland Chicken Coop!

The design for our new beautiful, edible backyard is underway. With three separate sections, each smaller area has a completely unique...

A few months ago, my husband was getting tired of working on the remodel of our front porch that was taking up all his spare time, and...