Claudia Sing

• Strawberry Harvest 1 year ago The long awaited STRAWBERRY Harvest is finally here!  Strawberries that come directly from the garden behind the house to my plate. Strawberries that are not cooped up and subjected to thousands of miles taken in a commercial refrigerated cargo truck, driven from some unknown farm to one of those...
• Spinach Harvest 1 year ago My second harvest from my vegetable garden is Spinach! I will be Popeye the Sailor Man!  The seeds were sowed end March and seedlings popped out in a couple of weeks. In the beginning, the seedling were flawless. Bright green, shaped like robust blades of grass and most important of all, flawless....
• New Lease Of Life 1 year ago Since the warmer weather is finally here and my teaching load is lighter in this semester, I have more time to dabble in the garden. It means that I can embark on producing more homegrown fruits and vegetables.  If you have read my previous posts, you would know that the former owner left behind...
• Secondary Residence or Not? 1 year ago Through the dining room window of the holiday house, I can see a shroud of mist floating lazily around the mountain peak, 500m. Accompanying the mountainous view is the incessant chirping of the birds for the past half an hour or so. Not soon after, the morning symphony is intruded by the ringing...
• Spring is here 2 years ago Spring is here. After four months of days with really short daylight and miserable weather (grey skies, rain and cold), is it a wonder that the blue skies, the warm gentle sunshine, and the green vegetation fill me with such joy? It’s a bonus when you come across golden fields of rapeseeds. The...

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