Tag: Mansfield

• Lettuce and Peas, Please

  

  Here’s a bright idea: Bookmark this page for updates throughout the season — words + photographs JULIE JOHNSON — Today’s the day, or so says my mom’s printed copy of the 2023 The Old Farmer’s Almanac. If I am to plant lettuce and peas under moon-favorable conditions and timing and all, it’s now or wait…

  homegrownjournal

  March 7, 2023

  2023, Garden, March 2023

  Arugula, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Bronze Beauty, Chinese Narrow Leaf, Compost, Crisp Mint, Elevated garden bed, Garden Planning, Garden Planning Dates, Hartville, Henderson's Black-seeded Simpson, How to plant lettuce, How to plant peas, Julie Johnson, Lettuce, Little Marvel, Mansfield, Merlot, Merveille Des Quatre Saisons, Midwest grown seed, Missouri, Old Farmer's Almanac, Peas, Raised bed gardening, Rare Seeds, San Marzano tomato, Spring Garden, Springfield, Square Foot Gardening, The Buffalo Seed Company, Urban Farmer, Uses for tackle box, What do pea seeds look like?, What does lettuce seed look like?, When do I plant lettuce?, When do I plant peas?, White Harvest Seed Company, Wild Rocket

• From the Editor: Used People, Danger: Ripe Tomato, Planted: Cherokee Sunset Rudbeckia, Jumajo Writing Company

  

  Used People A few nights ago, I finished reading The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, Holland’s first licensed woman watchmaker, born to a watchmaker dad who was born to a watchmaker dad. After her mom passed away and other siblings moved out, she lived in the family home with her older sister Betsie and…

  homegrownjournal

  August 4, 2022

  August 2022, From the Editor

  Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Betsie ten Boom, Bible, Casper ten Boom, Cherokee Sunset Rudbeckia, Corrie ten Boom, Foil around tomatoes, Genesis 50:20, Holland, Homegrown Journal, Julie Johnson, Jumajo Writing Company, Mansfield, Missouri, Squirrels eating tomatoes, The Hiding Place, Watchmaker, World War II

• Good Times August + Local Food + Drug Disposal

  

  Good Times August RepublicBluegrass & BBQAug. 5, 5:30-8:30 p.m., All agesCommunity CenterAdmission is a donation of unscented baby wipes. Cost for food is extra.More information: 417.732.5993  Enjoy No Reservations food truck; silent auction with items from local businesses; and bluegrass music from award-winning Lonesome Road and Chigger Creek. Benefits Republic Pregnancy Resource Center.  MindenminesGuided Bison…

  homegrownjournal

  August 4, 2022

  August 2022, From the Editor

  Antique motorcycle, August, Baker Creek, Baker Creek August Festival, Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, Bee, Beehive, Beehive Creek, Best Actor, Big Meats, bluegrass, Branson, Buy Local, Chigger Creek, clubs, collins, Collins Pie Festival, concerts, Crane, dancing, disposal sites, dispose, Eat Local, events, Fassnight Creek, Fassnight Creek Farm, Finley Farms, food truck, Forrest Gump, freeze dried, Garden, Gillioz Theatre, gourds, Green County, greenhouse, Guided Bison Saunter, Hillside Herd, Kansas City, Kenny's Funland Carnival, Liverpool Legends, Local Beef, Lonesome Road, Mansfield, Matinee, midweek, Miller, Miller Fall Festival, Missouri, Mountain Grove, Mountain Grove City Square, Mountain Grove Heritage Festival, Mountain Grove Municipal Airport, Opioids, pie, Prairie State PArk, pumpkins, Raw milk, Republic, Republic Community Center, Republic Pregnancy Resource Center, silent action, Southwest Missouri, Springfield, Spur Creek Farm, St. Louis, Sycamore, Sycamore Creek, Sycamore Creek Barn Dance, Tom Hanks, unscented baby wipes

• My Pea-pickin’ Heart

  

  At the start of elementary school, my family lived in Minnesota, close to the Twin Cities. You could say Prince and I were practically neighbors. #80sGirl Mary Hefner – neighbor lady, mother of two sons and one daughter, taker carer of a German Shepherd – taught swim lessons to me and my school of friends.…

  homegrownjournal

  May 1, 2021

  2021, Garden, May 2021

  Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, Julie Johnson, Kathy McFarland, Little Marvel Garden Pea, Mansfield, Minnesota, Missouri, Pea Plants, Peas, Square Foot Gardening