Busy Busy Bee
May 21st to July 23rd is a long time to go without an update, but things have been more than busy. I find myself on a couple hundred committees with only a few thousand...
Category: slave gardens
pictures of the slave garden
side view with the unfinished wattle fencing early dutch cabbage a view of the bush beans, cabbage, onions and tomatoes beans, squash and cabbage flipping dirt using nothing but a hoe. now that it’s...
Changes! Developments! Frustration! Inspiration!
February 1st was the last time I blogged huh? I guess I really need to do better about this. I am working on that. I found that it was very hard to blog from...
Slave Cuisine
I am looking for inspiration in the form of a meal that the slaves would have had. I have done the fatback and ho cakes, I have made turnip greens over the fire. I...
Putting in a garden
So I had an idea that we needed a slave garden on site. It would have been historically accurate and I got a little tired of making fatback and ho cakes every time I...
The Slave Identity Crisis
So which slave am I? I am finding out that being a slave has left my identity up for grabs. Am I a field slave toiling away from sunrise to sunset or am I...
