Thanksgiving and New Job

Things have been on hold a bit here at the Nightstar Apartment Harvest, or more like they have been totally swamped.  My husband started college at Le Cordon Blue, two months earlier than originally planned, I got a new job working overnights (love the shift!), and we had Thanksgiving to get through.  Now that things have leveled out, and with first payday just around the corner, I shall be getting back to normal blogging.

I did get a good book which I have started reading, that I highly recommend to all my fellow apartment homesteaders: Apartment Gardening by Amy Pennington.  Haven't read it all the way through yet, but well worth getting!

~ Morria

Beginning...

So I am beginning to homestead in earnest, in part to go along with my natural health course I am doing, and in part to start putting down roots, so to speak, in my area of future work... Problem?  I live in a second story apartment with a small open balcony that is also the walkway to stairs for my 3 neighboring apartments.  I do have a really good picture window in the bedroom, that gets afternoon sun.  My other challenge?  I live in Scottsdale AZ currently (my husband is attending Escoffier School of Culinary Arts).

So, this Desert Gypsy Gal is turning over a new leaf, literally.  We were able to make it from Farmington, NM with 3 plants: my husbands catus, my clover, and our mexican heather plants.  I have scouted out a metal shelving system at walmart that should go well in our bedroom where the plants can get sunlight, and I am also hunting for an additional plant light.  I found some awesome AZ made recycled wine bottle planters (refreshglass.com) which also fits in both the bedroom and living room windows, just perfect for herbs. Now the hard part, what to GROW?

~ Morria