The seasons are subtly shifting. I've only got a couple weeks left for oat planting, so I'll be pulling out lots of used-up garden beds and seeding the winter cover crop this week.

Meanwhile, fall vegetables are starting to gain a foothold elsewhere in the garden. Peas and carrots and kale in one area, buckwheat preparing the way for garlic in another. That, plus a long row of lettuce, is all I have left to plant in the edible line in 2016.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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