Welcome to the Bloom & Peck blog — real homesteading from a Kentucky backyard.
You’ll find sourdough recipes, garden-to-table cooking, and everything I’ve learned the hard way about growing food.
Erin here. Pull up a chair.
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What’s Destroying My Pepper Plants? pepper leaves cupping? Broad Mites!
My search, what is wrong with my pepper plant? Then, why are my pepper plants leaves cupping? Nothing seemed to match what my peppers were doing. Most advice…
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What to Plant in July in Kentucky — What I’m Actually Growing on My Homestead
If you are like me, searching for what to plant in July in Kentucky you might be surprised to find out how much is actually going in the…
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Easy Sourdough Discard Pancakes for Two (No Egg, No Additional Flour, 10 Minutes)
Some mornings you don’t want a big production — you just want real food on the table fast. These are my everyday sourdough discard pancakes for two: one…
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Best Chicken Breeds for Kentucky Beginners: What I Actually Keep and What I’d Choose
If you search ‘best chicken breeds for Kentucky,’ you’ll find the same ten names on every list. Buff Orpington. Rhode Island Red. Barred Rock. Most of those articles…
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Grow Bags for Kentucky Gardeners — 7 Crops I’ve Actually Grown (And What the Heat Taught Me the Hard Way)
If you’ve been reading this blog a while, you’ve seen the photo. Chives in a grow bag in Kentucky, April sunlight, ridgetop backdrop — it’s been sitting right…
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Raising Chickens in Kentucky: How My Craigslist Flock Began
With egg prices doing what they do, the questionable things big commercial producers put into chicken feed, and wanting to control exactly what goes into our bodies —…
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