Michelle Marine
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Michelle is a travel junkie and green living enthusiast based in Eastern Iowa. After following her husband’s military career for many years, they moved home to the farm in 2006 to raise well-traveled farm kids. With little budget, the Marines have taken all four kids to Europe and on road trips across the entire USA. Michelle shares family travel covering the USA and Europe, healthy recipes, and homesteading tips on her popular lifestyle blog SimplifyLiveLove.com.
We’ve seen the benefits of a healthy diet for our dogs and cats and we’re looking forward to doing even more for our dogs’ digestive systems with Wellness CORE for Digestive Health dog food. Feeding our dogs nutritious and healthy Wellness canned dog food (Lamb recipe), dry dog food (Whitefish and Brown Rice recipe), and Wellness CORE Bowl Boosters Meal Topper too is one way to ensure our dogs have a healthy belly and a happy life. It’s easy to help your dog live a happy and healthy life with Wellness CORE® Digestive Health dog food. Benefits of the Digestive Healthy Dry food include: CORE wellness canned dog food is a favorite of our dogs.
The Lasagna Gardening Method is a gardening style where you layer organic materials and do not till or dig and give the bed time to break down into fluffy, rich soil full of nutrients and less weeds. A lasagna garden bed is essentially a lot of layers: thick brown materials, thinner green materials, soil, and straw, with a bottom of cardboard or newspapers to keep the weeds from growing. I would recommend putting wood chips down on walkways between your beds to help keep weeds away, the walkways from becoming compacted and an additional nutrient source to add to the top of your bed come spring when you add fresh mulch to the walkways. It’s best time to start your lasagna beds is in the fall when leaves and other dried brown materials are plentiful, but you can start them anytime you want.
If you’d like to grow corn too, here are tips that will help you maximize your harvest, regardless of the type of corn you grow. Popcorn takes longer to germinate than sweet corn, and most varieties require 90-120 days to grow. Favorite sweet corn varieties in Iowa include Peaches and Cream, Buttergold Sweet, and True Gold Sweet Corn. Sweet corn will be harvested first and you’ll want to harvest sweet corn at exactly the right time.
The first way is to dye a white egg blue, then dye it yellow to get fun shades of green. The second way to get a greenish color naturally is to dye a brown egg blue. Aside from yellow, I think blue eggs are the easiest to get using natural egg dyes. If you’re really interested in natural dyes, I highly recommend Janet Garman’s workbook Natural Dyes on Wool.