With spring right around the bend, the season of new beginnings, with it's warmer days, endless dreams, and mile long task lists , it seems like the perfect time to share a bit of news... But first I should probably give you a bit of context.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Despite my sporadic presence here this year, I simply could not let us slip into 2019 without a review of 2018, now could I?! It seems as though the thing to do these days instead of making a resolution or two to kick off a new year is to pick…