• Basket of peaches
    Eat,  Harvest

    In the Kitchen – Peaches!

    Yes, the Peach Abundance is starting to roll in and I couldn’t be more excited! I’ve never grown/harvested my very own peaches before and there’s just something about The First Time, isn’t there? So, with about 1/3 of the tree fully ripe and ready for harvest, we spent Sunday picking, sorting, eating, and putting up the bounty. There were muffins,…

  • Food Storage & Preservation

    Small Batch Canning

    While there have been several great harvests coming in over the past couple of weeks, we still haven’t hit the point in the season where it is absolutely (ridiculously) overwhelming.  We’ve been eating lots of fresh veggies out of the garden and trying to put up as many as possible in the process. I took a long weekend for some…