A hands on life

A hands on life Our Goal is to help people learn, practice and appreciate human-scaled crafts, hobbies and skills.

We are a blog providing book reviews, recipes, and how to instructions to help people with a wide variety of crafts, from gardening to baking, from brewing to building.

12/12/2017

If you are interested in this, please checkout https://m.facebook.com/southwindgardens/?ref=bookmarks

Our new venture.

A non profit bringing a garden of native, useful, and edible plants to Northeast Kansas. Also a training center for sustainability and local reliance

08/07/2017
07/28/2017

To keep all of you in the loop. I know that this keeps changing, but we are currently working with a group of people to try and start a botanical garden of useful plants. I think it could be a great addition to northeast Kansas.

06/30/2017

So we have had an interesting summer. Nice and squirrels destroyed most of my chestnut seedlings, but the groundnuts are off and running.

We will see what I can offer this fall as far as grown seedlings.

04/01/2017

To let you all know what has been going on. I'm taking the blog in a slightly different direction. I have started growing tree seedlings of useful plants (mostly edibles, a few medicinal, dye plants,etc).

Soon I will be posting them for sale on eBay or through Facebook. I hope that this will provide funds for some of the other "experiments" that I would like to do.

11/09/2016
We have a new blog post up
11/09/2016

We have a new blog post up

Well, that was interesting.  While I was and remain never Trump, I hope that he does a good job as president. I now am returning to what...

10/22/2016

We're going to try this one more time

03/15/2013

If you are going to grow houseplants, why not choose plants that are both beautiful and useful? Ginger is one of these plants. Looking a bit like bam...

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Topeka, KS

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