Garden Day – ramblingthree.com

A trademark of hay houses is the deep window sills.

We spent time today in the garden at Blue Heron Farm. Murray, a resident and ex-Canadian, showed us his amazing haybale house. He used local materials to build it and it has a lot of special touches, but a nice, clean simplicity, too.

Windows along the roof line help provide light. The cabin is set up to work on passive solar heat meaning the sunlight comes in the cabin to warm it in the winter.

The floor is dirt, but finished with a mix of essential oils and other natural stuff. It feels neat to walk on because of the little bumps and imperfections, but it's quite clean.

Murray also took me through the garden and taught me about cover crops that help bring nutrients back into the soil. Then I asked what these things hanging on the fence were and he opened them up and showed me that they were loofahs.

Loofahs - those spongy things you use to exfoliate in the shower.

I dug up some sweet potatoes with Tony which was fun. And Kate got a new puppy, 8 weeks old, and he is so cute! Eleven-month old Cedar liked him, too.

On the way back home, we stopped at a restaurant called Chili’s. The portions were HUGE and we felt very stuffed after eating ribs and mini-burgers and a huge plate of tortilla chips.

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