• DIY,  Eat,  Goats

    2 Tips for Making Perfect Goat Cheese

    When we first began our short adventures in Goat Sharing last year, I had no idea how much I would grow to love goat cheese.  I knew I liked it, but I wouldn’t have guessed it would become one of my favorite things and that I would crave it regularly.   Now, I am by no means an expert in…

  • Eat,  Grow,  Harvest,  Uncategorized

    Grow, Harvest, Eat

    Grow Despite the funny summer we’ve had, we are still seeing a few new items trying to get in their production before the nights get too cold… Luffa A baby Butternut Squash, trying to ripen before the cold weather descends. I’m not sure that the luffa or the butternuts will have enough time to ripen fully, but I am very…

  • DIY,  Eat

    Herbed Cream Cheese

    How do you turn plain ol’ cream cheese into a deliciously extravagant snack? Harvest, chop up, and stir some fresh herbs into your favorite cream cheese, then slather it on some crackers or freshly baked bread!  Our favorite herb combination is basil and thyme, but any herb or combination you love will work! Delicious doesn’t have to be complicated! Hope…

  • Eat,  Grow,  Harvest

    Grow, Harvest, Eat

    Just when I thought that summer was on it’s way quickly into fall, we’ve had two steady weeks of heat.  Go figure, right?  The garden is in full production mode, though everything is later than it was last year, and even the year before that…I still haven’t even harvested any corn. I mentioned in my last Grow, Harvest, Eat post…

  • DIY,  Eat,  Food Storage & Preservation

    How to Make Tomato Powder

    It is officially the Time of Bounty again.  You’ve sown your seeds, cared for their sprouts, transplanted and top dressed the healthiest growers and are now harvesting a bounty of tomatoes and squash and corn and maybe even peppers from your garden several times a week if not every day. This wonderful process leaves you full of pride while feeding…

  • Eat,  Grow,  Harvest

    Grow, Harvest, Eat

    Grow I fear that the garden has reached its peak and it’s all downhill from here.  Why?  Well, for the past couple of nights, it’s been cold enough for me to sleep with long pants and a long sleeved shirt on. Yep, that’s my science 😉 Really, though, the days have been a bit cooler (high 70s to mid-80s) and…