Mountain Valley Refuge

Homemade Natural Living

MENU
  • Home
  • Garden
    • Fall Garden
    • Garden Indoor
    • Garden Planning
    • Herbs
    • Spring Garden
    • Summer Garden
    • Winter Garden
  • Kitchen
    • Baking
    • Dessert
    • Drinks
    • Meals
    • Preserving
    • Snacks
    • Soup
  • Health
    • Herbs
    • Other Foods
    • Tea
  • Camping
    • Camping Checklists
    • Camping Food
    • Camping Tips
  • About
  • Say hello
  • Tea

Snow and Seeds is the February Gardening in Winter

Gardening in the winter looks much different than in the summer. Over November we rest. In December, we read and dream. In January, the dreams are shaped into plans and garden beds cleaned (if possible). February is the month to get serous. In February, we start the majority of our seeds indoors. This year especially,…

Read More …

Abundant Winter Garden Plants in January (Indoor and Outdoor)

Welcome to this month’s garden tour! Learn why you should grow a winter garden and how. I’ll also share our winter garden harvest and which winter garden plants you can expect this time of year. Let’s get into it! In our garden this month, we are fixing the garden beds outside, planting our very first seeds…

Read More …

How to sow the best winter garden

Sowing seeds in winter is a practice believed to make seeds come up earlier and hardier. The idea comes from the basis that seeds inherently knows when is the right time to germinate and sowing the seeds in a container, making a mock greenhouse, the germinating process is speeded up. It is commonly known winter…

Read More …

Learn how to make a garden salad to compliment dinner

Learn how to make a garden salad to compliment your dinner. This will be a treat and wonderful health boost for your family! When I plan my dinners, I usually think in this order: meat, staple, vegetable. That is why most days I get a main course all prepared, and in the last minute have…

Read More …

Grow salad greens indoors

This simple overview will show you how to grow salad greens indoors this winter season. Just because the summer and fall season came to an end, does not mean that your garden has to. Growing your own salad greens can be a simple task, and is well worth doing!

Plant vegetables the entire fall and winter

Do you think you missed getting a head start on your very own fall and winter garden? Do not fret – it is NOT too late to plant vegetable seeds. You can plant vegetables throughout fall and winter … allow me to give you the exciting scoop. I know that when fall sneaks up, there…

Read More …

Search for something

Howdy!

couple by the ocean

Welcome to the life of figuring things out from the perspective of a young married couple.

Our dream is to make the day to day needs of living our own responsibility.

We want to reap the benefits of acquiring new skills, eating rich-tasting foods, thinking up solutions and experience the joys and accomplishments of doing things ourself.

Read the stories we record, and we hope that you leave inspired to do the same.

Search by Category

  • Home
  • Garden
    • Fall Garden
    • Garden Indoor
    • Garden Planning
    • Herbs
    • Spring Garden
    • Summer Garden
    • Winter Garden
  • Kitchen
    • Baking
    • Dessert
    • Drinks
    • Meals
    • Preserving
    • Snacks
    • Soup
  • Health
    • Herbs
    • Other Foods
    • Tea
  • Camping
    • Camping Checklists
    • Camping Food
    • Camping Tips
  • About
  • Say hello
  • Tea

Connect Elsewhere

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube

Categories

  • Baking
  • Camping
  • Camping Checklists
  • Camping Food
  • Camping Tips
  • DIY
  • Drinks
  • Fall Garden
  • Finance
  • Garden
  • Garden Indoor
  • Garden Planning
  • Health
  • Herbs
  • Home
  • Kitchen
  • Meals
  • Other Foods
  • Preserving
  • Seasons
  • Snacks
  • Soup
  • Spring Garden
  • Summer Garden
  • Tea
  • Travel
  • Winter Garden

Archives

  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021

Hello, I’m Natasha!

Disclaimer & Privacy Policy.

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube

Search the Site

Mountain Valley Refuge

AS AN AMAZON ASSOCIATE, I EARN FROM QUALIFYING PURCHASES.