Be joyful though you have considered all the facts
I was bummed to find that there are not a lot of dandelions on our property. One of the first exercises in one of my herbal medicine books is a dandelion tincture. I had to skip it because I couldn’t find any at hand. Today I went to Amie’s kindergarten school to pull the weeds …
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last husk cherries hoop house tomatoes and peppers, and some rhubarb celery and parsley drying (yeah, they got mixed up) other drying herbs (safe, rosemary, marjoram, thyme, lovage) destined for the Excalibur potted up herbs, Amie and DH the Freecycle chipper now works! (just needed some oil and the eviction of a mouse)
All from the garden (tomatoes, cucumbers, red and green peppers, onions, tiny eggplants). Not the steak, which is however local. The Columbus Day weekend is going to be sunny and warm, a welcome break from the incessant rain of the last week. I’m also feeling much better, though my voice still registers an octave lower …
As you can see I am alive and doing things, like playing around with my new dehydrator. Let me tell you, it was a bad idea to keep the apple skins on, and to start the process at 4 pm. Live and learn! I’m waiting for the rain to stop so I can put my …
Hoop house biomass The one surviving cabbage: enough for Sauerkraut? Today’s harvest Next month’s harvest
It may still, officially, be Summer, but the day I put on my woolen socks is, to me, the first day of Fall. That was yesterday. Last night the temperature dropped to 47 F and my mind races to what we need to get done before the frosts come. Give our hoop house a “spine” …
Tricolor pepper harvest Fat buds and flowers on my two Sochi tea plants. Mushrooms in my schroom bed, but are they the anticipated King Stropheria? ~ I did a quick inspection of the hive today and found an amply supply of honey, nectar, and brood in all stages of development. There were lots of newly …
I am growing several sweet as well as hot peppers. One evening I witnessed my Bengali family try the Habanero. Now, these are people used to hot and spicy food. At first they claimed not to be impressed with the pepper, but by some fluke they must have tried a part of it that wasn’t …
We’re back from a week at the Cape. We stayed in a little salt box cottage among the stunted pines, under the constant screep of the mating (and molting) cicadas. We saw the Perseids, built castles in the sand, went looking for beaches with waves not too intimidating for a four-year-old and a six-year-old. It …