Learn how to make and can your own jalapeño hot sauce at home with fresh peppers. Easy, flavorful, and shelf-stable — the perfect homemade hot sauce recipe.
Harvesting a giant zucchini
I harvested our first zucchini today from our Fordhook (Burpee) plants. It's a whopping 3 pounds (1.5 kilos), 10 inches long and 4 inches across at the biggest part!! I grated about 1/3 of it and made zucchini bread (which takes about 2 cups grated zucchini) and plan...
Harvesting green goodies
We got to harvest a few more things from our garden last week...it's always an exciting time. But it can be tedious when it comes to things like berries, especially gooseberries. They grow all over the bush and you really have to climb up, down and around the bush to...
Homemade ice cream with fresh berries – Staying cool while enjoying the harvest
Homemade ice cream is SO easy to make with an ice cream machine. I don’t know why I don’t make it more often. Maybe it’s the fear of then having to eat it all! 🙂 But seriously, if you use a no-cook recipe for ice cream, throwing the ingredients together and pouring...
Another little project for the garden to help us enjoy harvesting
I spent 2 hours cutting grass with the scythe, pulling weeds and pruning bushes in the garden Friday. The grass was 1-3 feet tall back there and just getting out of hand. Mackenzie was kind enough to sleep through the entire thing which allowed me to really get down...
What have you harvested in 2009?
I was just out in the garden and picked 1.658 kilos of strawberries. That's over 3.5 pounds of strawberries! And the good news is, there's going to be a whole lot more over the next couple of weeks. What are we going to do with all these berries? Well, I'm planning to...
Storing water at the orchard
A few weeks ago, we bought 3 huge IBC tanks to hold rain water for the farm. One of those containers was destined for our orchard and I guess my dad got tired of seeing it sitting in the courtyard because he offered to help Stefan move it down there. We just bought a...
Time to bring down the ivy – and a little garden art
This past Sunday, we started the attack on the ivy once again. It covers the back of both sides of the barn, and unfortunately has worked it's well under the gutters and up onto the roof. We're talking about hiring someone to get up on the roof and take the stuff...
Starting a window box container garden
We've recently decided that if we can't eat it, we're going to try to filter unnecessary plants out of our lives. Ivy that eats houses unless it's trimmed for hours every month is one of those plants. Naturally, our house plants are not going to get the ax but we're...
A day of work in the orchard
Don't let my lack of posting let you think we haven't been busy or that I don't have TONS of things to blog about. I've just been in a bit of a blogging funk I guess and also have been having a hard time finding time to sit down and git 'r done. But I'm trying to get...
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