Here at our homestead, we’re in our fourth year of gardening in the raised beds that Michael built.  This includes growing strawberries, which has come with a few surprises and lessons learned, some quite by accident! I thought I would tell you a little bit about that today. Especially because lately, we’ve had more strawberries than we’ve known what to do with, and it was the last thing we expected.

The first thing we learned, the very next morning after planting our very first strawberry starter plants 4 years ago, was that we needed to find a way to protect them from the birds and small animals, if we ever wanted to have any berries to pick.  There were squirrels feasting on our new plantings in our bed, and that put Michael in high gear.… Read More