With the spring around the corner, it is finally time for lawn trimming. It is a process that has to be done several times every year, and every other week during the warmer months. For some some, mowing the lawn is very therapeutic, particularly when it comes to clearing your thoughts. There is nothing better than…
What is your place of seclusion? Where do you find your moment of Zen? Is there a corner in your home where you feel safe, secure and at peace? For most people, such a place is their bed, an armchair next to their book shelves or that special corner filled with all their favorite stuff…
The whole process of growing your own plants offers incredible pleasure, but it requires a lot of work, too. Gardening is not just about getting your hands dirty and to make it right, you will have to use proper tools. Especially for beginners, there are some irreplaceable utensils which can be useful in most of…
The thing about an herb garden, or any edible garden for that matter, it can be extremely challenging identifying whats growing where. Or if you’re like me, you mistake oregano for parsley. So for practical reasons and to provide a decorative element to my Herb Ladder Garden I made these garden “stakes” to identify my…
It all began on a sunny day while chatting with my neighbor. We were in her garage and I said to her ” why do you still have that old wooden ladder? It looks dangerous.” She replied, “I don’t know. It works.” I say to her why don’t you let me make an herb garden…
As I’m sitting here going through some pictures of my home in a photo album I’m drifting into a state of nostalgia, remembering the summer after I 1st purchased my house. That was a very interesting year, and an even more eventful spring and summer. (OK, this is where in the movies the scene cuts…
Hi ToolBox Divas! I’m Blake Loftus (yes, still a diva, just a unisex first name lol) of Two Hawks Homestead. We moved from the sunny beaches of Florida to the Blue Ridge Mountains of south western Virginia in 2013 where we bought a small sustainable family farm raising miniature laMancha dairy goats, chickens, rabbits, pigs….
