Homesteading

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How to Preserve Fresh Herbs in Olive Oil

How to Preserve Fresh Herbs in Olive Oil

Years ago I discovered that one can preserve fresh herbs in olive oil in the freezer and started immediately doing so with my favorite herb, basil. Each year, at the height of the season, when the rich aroma of basil fills my gardens and the Farmers' Markets, I bring as much into my kitchen as I possibly can and put…
June 29, 2019
Garlic Scape Pesto

Garlic Scape Pesto

It's garlic scape season and what better way to celebrate than to make a bit of Garlic Scape Pesto? What the heck is a garlic scape? It's the curly stemmed flower of hard neck garlic that appears a few weeks before harvest time. The stem is cut off of the plant in order to allow it to focus its energy…
June 20, 2019
How to Preserve Strawberries

How to Preserve Strawberries

The abundance of spring often shows it first blaze of glory in the form of perfectly ripe, richly red, amazingly sweet, little strawberry gems. We wait rather impatiently for them as they shift from green to white to red and then eat as many as we can straight off the plant and still warm from the sun. Once we've had…
June 10, 2019

Shown, Unshown – The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

Hello, Friend! How are you? Are you well? Is the season treating you wonderfully? Growing you, learning you, calling you home to yourself? It's been a bit since I've been able to pop in here and so I'd like to share a bit about why I've been MIA with a good ol' Shown, Unshown catch up post :-) Shown Spring…
April 11, 2019
If we were having coffee…

If we were having coffee…

If we were having coffee... I'd greet you with a big fat hug and tell you how wonderful it is to see you! It's lightly snowing outside again so we'd find a cozy nook to catch up in. I'd ask how you've been...how your family's doing...how work is going? And we'd dive straight in to Catch Up Mode because, gosh…
January 12, 2019

Winter

Being new to a property and micro-climate is a trip! You know... We'd noticed a few of the trees in the orchard that grew at incredibly wonky angles, but it wasn't until the winds picked up in the spring and sent very heavy items spinning about like children's toys, that we made the connection between bent trees and the "wind events"…
January 2, 2019