• Food Storage & Preservation,  Harvest

    How Many Apples Does It Take…

    …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 many apples… I have a friend named Madonna (yes, that’s…

  • Harvest

    Harvest Monday

    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?). Remarkably, I failed to even notice last week that I…

  • Harvest

    Apples

    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 for canned up apple sauce and sliced apples…Apple Pie in…

  • Harvest

    Harvest Monday

    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 you don’t mind either 😉 The garden is still in…

  • Bees & Pollinators,  Eat

    Sweet Golden Honey

    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 still sporting her little clipped wing) and were busy bringing…

  • Harvest

    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday everyone! August is rushing by in a bit of a blur.  Have you ever heard the saying that goes something like, “life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans”?  Yeah…that’s the kind of the month I’ve had so far and there seems to be no end in sight! The good news is, there’s lots of happy…