Join us as we learn how to raise a garden as well as harvest the wild fruit etc around us.
Last week we were blessed with the gift of buckets of Concord grapes! What to do with them? As you may know, Concord grapes are not really eating grapes as they have large pips & toughish skins but have a wonderful flavor. Last year we had purchased 100lbs of organic […]
We delivered some sheep to our neighbors on Sunday & they gave us a great pile of “green goodies” 🙂 which included peppers, cucumbers & these chiles. I knew we would not get to eat them all before they went soft so got the dehydrator out yesterday & set to […]
With just arriving home from England on Monday it has taken us a couple days to catch up with everything. When we took a walk early Wednesday morning the kids spied some blackberries so this morning we (Daniel, Hannah, Caleb & myself) headed out on the first blackberry picking adventure. […]
With the weather being so cold the seedlings that I planted weeks ago have had to stay inside in smaller pots. Yesterday it warmed up a little so Richard & I emptied some wood off the saw horses in the barn & made a “bench” up on one of the […]
Last year I started planting seeds in March & that was too late as it got hot here very early followed by the drought. A local lady told me I needed to plant earlier so last weekend I did just that. Last year many of the seeds did not do […]
As well as the “regular” potatoes we grew this year we also grew a few purple potatoes. We had never tasted them before so yesterday we were eager to see if they tasted any different. Mash potatoes seem to be a “staple” over here in the USA whereas in England […]
With our garden not producing as much as we would like this year, when we got a phone call from the neighbor asking if we wanted some cucumbers & squash the answer was a resounding “YES!” (We have been getting about 1 cucumber & zucchini a week!) Her grandson brought […]
Once all the animals were fed this morning & we had had breakfast, Michelle & I started making Apple Sauce. The 10 gallons of apples made 23 pts which was good as many of the apples had to have bad bits cut out of them. Once again, what a blessing! […]
LOL! We got a call from our friends, Marcus & Pat, this evening to say that their apples were falling off their tree & so if we wanted to come pick some we were more than welcome. Off we went! Yes, I know it is WAY too early for apples […]
This afternoon we were invited down to pick blackberries at the people’s house that own the 5 acres next to us. We picked 2 gallons in just a few short minutes. What a blessing! Their blackberries are huge! Look at the difference in size between theirs (left) & a wild […]