Just a quick hello from me to you! I’ve done blogging before but this blog is going to be dedicated to my homestead dreams and plans. I call it the Lǐ Château because we are the Lǐ family and it’s our “grand country house”, but the actual origins of the name are steeped in laughter over a batch of homemade mulberry wine (disclaimer, it is not an actual château, we do not live in France and the only thing truly grand about our house is what we make of it!)
With all that said we don’t have a homestead mostly because we don’t yet own our own “home”, I do however keep a pretty ambitious kitchen garden and try to be as self sufficient as possible. We live on the Delmarva peninsula which is basically the worlds largest sand bar, well maybe not the largest but it is pretty big and it is mostly sand.
I am fairly new to the gardening scene, growing up we’d grow some tomatoes and peas but that’s about it. My first true interest in gardening was born in a cold and frozen wasteland … well maybe not really but a city apartment in Harbin, China is really no place to get into gardening. But on cold winter evenings I’d sit and watch BBC gardening programs and it would warm my heart and set my soul to dreaming.
One day at the end of summer we got some nice tomatoes from the market and I decided to try saving seeds like I’d seen people do on Pinterest. It was mostly just something to do, I didn’t really expect them to actually grow but the next summer our hot sunny 8th floor balcony was covered in tomato plants. I made compost from tea, paper, kitchen scraps and anything else I could find. And that lit the fire of plant love and I’ll never be the same!
Between the sand and my 3 children gardening has a variety of challenges, I’d like to share my garden with you. The joys, the triumphs, the challenges and how I overcome them, the successes and of course the failures as well!
Join me in my kitchen garden as I homestead dream! Ask me any questions and tell me anything you’d like to see. Ready, set, grow !
With all that said we don’t have a homestead mostly because we don’t yet own our own “home”, I do however keep a pretty ambitious kitchen garden and try to be as self sufficient as possible. We live on the Delmarva peninsula which is basically the worlds largest sand bar, well maybe not the largest but it is pretty big and it is mostly sand.
I am fairly new to the gardening scene, growing up we’d grow some tomatoes and peas but that’s about it. My first true interest in gardening was born in a cold and frozen wasteland … well maybe not really but a city apartment in Harbin, China is really no place to get into gardening. But on cold winter evenings I’d sit and watch BBC gardening programs and it would warm my heart and set my soul to dreaming.
One day at the end of summer we got some nice tomatoes from the market and I decided to try saving seeds like I’d seen people do on Pinterest. It was mostly just something to do, I didn’t really expect them to actually grow but the next summer our hot sunny 8th floor balcony was covered in tomato plants. I made compost from tea, paper, kitchen scraps and anything else I could find. And that lit the fire of plant love and I’ll never be the same!
Between the sand and my 3 children gardening has a variety of challenges, I’d like to share my garden with you. The joys, the triumphs, the challenges and how I overcome them, the successes and of course the failures as well!
Join me in my kitchen garden as I homestead dream! Ask me any questions and tell me anything you’d like to see. Ready, set, grow !
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