What a difference a week makes, ha? It amazes me how quickly fruit grows when left to its own devices! Last weekend, after harvesting small amounts of apricots for over a week, I finally had enough to make my very first apricot jam! While I was at it, I made…
Happy Monday everyone! Things are, happily, continuing their slow roll out of the garden and into the kitchen! The Yellow Taxi Tomatoes are slowing their production and there are only a handful of them left on the plants. It’s OK though, because there are many other varieties that will follow…
Our rooster has finally found his Doodle Doo… The only catch is, he sings from inside the coop between 6:00 and 6:30 every single morning now. Yep, you read that right…he doesn’t leave the coop and stand in the brilliant sunshine to sing his song, he does it from the…
April 2012: June 2012: Whoa! 😉
Every morning when I wake up (whether it be by the alarm or by the suns gentle rise behind the Sangres), I make myself a cup of black tea with milk & honey and take a little walk through the garden. I check for growth and blossoms, I harvest, I…
I plant sweet corn not only because I adore the taste of it…but because I am also in love with the way the wind dances through its leaves, singing its beautiful songs of summer…