Last summer, I was given a couple of packets of heirloom tomato seeds by a friend/co-worker. I couldn’t think of a better gift! One of those packets contained a few tiny Barnes Mountain Yellow Tomato seeds! I had never before heard of such a thing, was super excited to try…
Happy Monday everyone!!! I didn’t take many pictures this week (I was too busy taking pictures of our guests and the shenanigans that occurred with said guests 😉 ). Luckily, the lack of pictures is not representative of what’s actually coming in from the garden! While the tomato tally is lower this…
But I do find a great sense of satisfaction in feeding horn worms to our chickens. Especially after they’ve successfully destroyed several tomatoes. Stupid worms.
…to drive a woman crazy? Apparently the answer is 150 pounds because that’s what we harvested last Friday evening and, at this point, I’m feeling a bit crazy about the process of processing 150 pounds of delicious (unforgiving) apples. Let’s go back a bit and explain how we acquired so…
Happy Monday everyone! Amazingly, in this time of bountiful harvests, I haven’t actually been harvesting very often! Not because there wasn’t anything to harvest, but because other life-happenings have been getting in the way. Nothing to worry about though, everything’s fine…just very busy these days (is this becoming a theme/habit?).…
Last night we harvested a ton of apples. Not from our trees, but from our friend’s parent’s trees. We filled four boxes and a bag and didn’t even make a dent in the bounty that is growing on just two of their trees. The deal was, free apples in trade…
Happy Monday everyone!!! I’ve been kind of MIA form this space over the last couple of weeks, save for a few random posting here and there. No real excuses, just life. Luckily, though, the garden and it’s production doesn’t care if I miss a few posts in Blog Land…I hope…
Bees amaze me. Absolutely. When we checked on our bees in the spring, we were able to see that they had officially made it through the winter and were healthy. They had the same queen that they came to us with (marked with a little dot on her back and…