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Gardening, except if you count my childhood pet rooster. I've done both flowers/ornamental and veggie gardening off and on all my adult life; the chickies came last year. Now that my trees are so big, veggies are pretty much out of the question for me. It gives the chickens a bigger backyard...

WOW!!!! What a wonderful project!

I'm trying my cukes in pots this year, along the top of a fence. The idea is that they will vine over the fence and I'll get lots of tasty veggies. My grandma always grew her cukes so they spilled over a rock wall, it looked pretty and it made picking the veggies easy. I'll let you know how...

I use it is salads sometimes, with mint. I make a salad with chopped carrots, cukes, tomatoes, radishes, and sometimes other veggies and "dress" it with salt, lemon juice, mint and lemon balm. Mostly I just like the smell when I brush up against it....and the chickens don't eat it.

My local Lowes has trucks coming in at the beginning of the week, and every Monday and Tuesday they move the "old" inventory to the back and sell it for 75% off. I got begonias for a quarter, gorgeous lillies for $2.50 and all my bedding plants. On Monday and Tuesday there are always people...

I found a link for amount of water per square foot. I found that for my family we would probably come up short, unless we had a large storage system before we switched over. In Austin where we have an average rainfall of 32 inches, a 1000 sq. ft. roof would yeild about 20,000 gallons a year...

I'd like to become more water self sufficient. Here in Texas we seem to have drought for at least part of every year. If I every get the chance to build my crunchy-granola dream home, it will have a rain water collection system. I think that in addition to oil dependence and impending...