Season 3: Conversations about how we homeschool (and a few about what we are reading). Season 2: Training our puppy. Season 1: Our 2020 garden from seed to stomach. Thanks for following along.
Thanks for joining us for our 2023 reading recap. We talk about our goals for the year, how we did, what we liked to best, and what we learned about our reading this year. Then we discuss our goals for next year.
We talk about our reading goals and plans for 2022, how our reading developed, and what our notable/favorite books were. Then we discuss our reading goals for 2023. Thanks for joining us.
We discuss our reading from the last year and how that shapes our reading in 2022.
We end our homeschool season by talking about our curriculum and about the future of our homeschool. Stay for the end where we talk about our reading disagreements.
We took a long break while we moved, but we catch up on where we are now and how Emma plans our schooling.
We talk about our homeschool influences, past influencers, and outside influences.
Emma defines homeschooling and we talk about our journey. We also talk about our reading.
We talk about what we are working on with Biscotti, what we do well, and what has been challenging. Then we talk about what we've learned through these two months.
We talk about how Biscotti is learning and how we all are learning. Bonus: what we're reading.
Emma needs a break so our daughters come to help me out!
Where we are in his training, what we are working on, and what Joe learning.
This is the first episode in our mini-season on training our new puppy.
Recapping our garden, sharing a lot of big news, and announcing out next season
To change the podcast up a bit, we talk about what is interesting in the garden and take a 10,000 foot view of gardening this COVID-19 year.
We've heard we've grown the best corn ever this year. The garden has been good to us this year.
We try to give a true picture of the garden. Emma reads a passage from an article and we discuss reading in general.
Joe caught a vine borer before it did too much damage and other updates.
Harvesting colanders full of produce. We talk about what's new this week. Joe makes up a quote game. And we discuss some of our favorite board games.
We're eating more and more from the garden, and we share some gardening conversations from this week.
The garden journey gets drama as some of the tomatoes die! Lots of things are going well though and we talk about what we like about our garden this year.
Eating salad from our garden, storms blowing over corn, lots of things growing, and fall planting to plan.
Lots of new things to update: staying with a cherry harvest. Joe also gives an update on an article he published based on lessons from the garden, and they both update what they are reading and watching.
We're eating more and more from our garden, and we share some reflections on gardening.
Talking about the drama of gardening, the most dramatic year of our lives, and what we're reading and watching right now.
We talk about all the new with in the garden, Joe's free wood chip pile, and some things we are reading
Gardening is in full swing here near Lake Michigan, so we have lots of news. We talk about our plans for pest control this season too.
Lots of things are growing, what we're looking forward to, and air favorite apples.
Lot's of things new in our garden: spring plants, sourdough, projects, and lessons we have learned.
Learn how Emma's Sourdough went and about Joe's new shredder
More projects are finished and our barrels are finished. We have spring plants in the ground and summer seedlings in the basement.
Things are starting to heat up in the garden. There are things to plant, seedlings growing, and rain barrels to build.
What's new in our garden, What we're learning, and a little advice for new gardeners about soil.
We go live on video for this week's episode. We talk about our tomato seedlings, what we're learning as we prep for the new season, and interact with some viewers live.
Staring seedlings, hiccups, and a bonus conversation about books
What's new in our garden the first week of the COVID-19 crisis? Lettuce, seeds, mistakes, etc.
We talk about apples, pruning trees, and the seeds we're starting right now.
We explain how our indoor garden is growing, what we would plant in an extended pandemic, and give advice for gardening in your first season.
This is a slow week in the garden, but we're looking forward to the new year. We go through seeds for the year, seed by seed, and answer a listener question about how succession planting works.
Season 1: Episode 3 February 11th 2020 We give a quick garden update. Then we explain how we plan our garden, what our indoor garden looks like, and what our dream gardens include.
What each of our gardens looked like, an overview of Square Foot Gardening, and resources we now use.
Our first seeds came today. We talk about our reasons for gardening, how we got into gardening, what or garden looks like now, and what we look forward to most this year.