We are starting this blog as a photo album and journal of projects as well as our gardening trials and errors. David and I spend the majority of the short Northwest growing season outside in our yard and garden. We also enjoy frequenting second hand stores and salvage yards looking for materials for new projects. In early March of2008, we began construction on our raised bed garden area and were able to have a successful garden on a very tight budget using recycled materials. In our slide show you will see every project we did in 2008 from breaking ground for raised beds, building a cold frame from our old windows, wine barrel planters, building our chicken coop and run, putting up composting bins and the picket fencing surrounding the garden.

I also start all our vegetables, herbs, annuals and perennials from direct sowing or from seedlings started in our basement grow room. All of the grow room materials were also salvage with the exception of the lighting fixtures...for obvious reasons.

I just had an interesting thought...Thanks to the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ, we are also living salvaged lives...Praise the Lord! "Therefore if anyone be in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone and the new has come!" 2 Cor 5:17

We will no doubt be adding to our project blog and photo's this year as the 2009 growing season gets underway! We hope you enjoy what you see here!

God bless!