We can.  Or we soon will be.  Since we found some food grade barrels on Craigslist.  A few folks on Twitter had told us they found barrels on Craigslist and it took a little manuevering… but now we have two barrels for roughly $34 bucks.  Not bad, concidering one 55 gal. barrel online (shipped) will run you 80-100 bucks.  And if you haven’t priced actual ready-to-go rain barrels… you might pay 100-200 smackers. 

Here is a quick pick of the two barrels…

Yeah… so, not all that much to say about them at the moment, but expect to see a “How To Make A Rain Barrel Video” or something of that nature.  There are a million how-to(s) and walk-thru(s) on making a rain barrel… but not a million with us in it right?  Right.  You don’t come here for the pretty pictures, you come here for us!  haha… no really.  Kinda.  No.  Nevermind.

So stay tuned.  Do any of you have rain barrels?  And did you make them yourself?

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Today is National Garlic Day.  How cool is that, we didn’t even know that was a real thing… but sure enough.  So in celebration of National Garlic Day – we are going to go to Olive Garden and have garlic leaking from our pores for a day or so going to show you our barrel full of garlic (and onions… and some volunteer mixed greens).   Enjoy…

Garlic Sprout

First Garlic Shoots

Garlic (behind Izzy)

Garlic & Greens

Are you growing any garlic?  Have you in the past?  Tell us about it.  Any tips? What is your favorite recipe using garlic?  It is National Garlic Day – let’s celebrate it together!

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You begged, we delivered… here is a video on How To Make Newspaper Pots.  Enjoy.

Newspaper Pots from James Cross on Vimeo.

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