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Hello, I’m Savanna. I started this blog as a way to keep track of & share the projects I am working on at home. I am sure a large part of this will be just me rambling and thinking through my processes. In no way am I a professional fixer-upper, gardener, crafter, or cook, but I LOVE a project! My husband and I bought a house 4 years ago and have been steadily working on updating it. We are unsure if this is our “forever home” or not, but we love being here. This will always be the place we brought our babies home to, so it will forever be special to us whether we stay or move on someday :) This summer will be the 4th out of 5 that I have either been pregnant or been tending to a baby. The week we moved into this house, I found out we were expecting our first child after several years of trying, and this past summer we welcomed our second! Now that our family is complete, I am looking to a full summer of fun and sunshine with my boys! In 2023 my husband built a farm stand (That Little Farm Stand) for me to sell excess veggies and a few canned items. I skipped the whole thing last year since I was expecting a baby mid-summer, so I am excited to get that up and going again this year too. I will share more about the stand in another blog.

We have had a garden for several years. Some years work out better than others. Last year I was extremely pregnant and just didn’t have it in me to deal with our garden in the Tennessee heat, so we let it go pretty early in the season. I wasn’t able to put up as much as I normally would, but thanks to our parents and friends, we have been just fine! My mom took care of putting up our okra & peaches, my MIL and FIL have kept us stocked when we run low on peas, soup mix, and tomato juice, and our neighbors (and bffs) put up our corn! I am so excited for this summer’s garden and cannot wait to start planting in the next few weeks.

Normally we wait until the last frost and purchase started plants from the local Amish community, but I wanted to try something different this year. So, last week during a sick day with one of my boys, we started some seeds in a Jiffy Greenhouse Kit using only seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (not sponsored by either). I was a little unsure how that process would go, but each pod has started to show some green! This year we will grow okra, green beans (2 varieties), purple hull peas, tomatoes (3 varieties), jalapenos (2 varieties), carrots, cucumbers and watermelons. The beans, peas, okra, and carrot seeds will all be sown directly in the garden, but everything else is starting in the house! In addition to enjoying fresh veggies all summer, I will put up enough by canning & freezing to get us through to next summer.

This week’s to-do list includes taking freezer/pantry inventory to see what remains from last summer & looking into raised bed options for carrots, cucumbers, and watermelons.