Red Dirt Farm and Studio

A Joyful Creative Life

A couple of months ago Mr. Cottage dug through our  scrap copper pile and came up with the idea to make a trellis for one of our clematis plants that was sprawling all over where it shouldn’t. He played around with a couple of different designs and then he got to work soldering everything in …

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It is mulberry season! The ripe fruit is edible and is widely used in pies, tarts, wines, cordials and tea. The fruit of the black mulberry, native to southwest Asia, and the red mulberry, native to eastern North America, have the strongest flavor. * Oh so many lush berries. I wonder why we thought it a …

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dirt glorious dirt

Kim of Red Dirt Farm and Studio

Here at Coral Cottage we spent the entire weekend digging in the dirt.   Some of it was good, some not so much. Mr. Cottage tilled up additional garden space. In addition to more tomatos, and peppers, I put in seeds for sugar snap peas, wow my mouth waters at the prospect of going out …

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