Making wine without all the extras

by | Sep 16, 2008 | Food, Garden, Homesteading Life

We had the privilege and pleasure of being invited to visit friends in Karlsruhe on Saturday during a family wine making day. We weren’t really sure what we were getting ourselves into but when we arrived, we found out it was us along with 3 generations of one...
Plum Clafouti a.k.a. Plum Bread Pudding

Plum Clafouti a.k.a. Plum Bread Pudding

by | Aug 25, 2008 | Desserts, Food, Garden

So we got about 1 pound, maybe 2, of plums from a neighbor earlier this week and I am finally doing something with them today. Been working on other things the rest of the week but it’s time to process these suckers before we go away for 3.5 days to Stefan’s parents...

Make your own organic rooting hormone

by | Aug 16, 2008 | Garden

We have found that taking a cutting from a tomato plant is quite simple and it roots really easily. But we’d like to do other plants as well and sometimes a rooting hormone would be useful. No need to worry about buying some expensive chemicals or organic...

We’ve got worms!

by | Jul 30, 2008 | Garden

No, no problems or complaints in this post. We’re not upset that we have worms but rather pleased instead. We recently started our very own worm farm after finding ourselves plagued with an endless supply of fruit flies in our kitchen who just loved munching...

An update on what’s growing

by | Jul 29, 2008 | Garden

On Saturday morning, I passed by the thyme plant growing in my herb container garden and saw this! ICK!!!! I don’t know where they came from or how they got to be over an inch so quickly but these little suckers were munching down on my thyme plant. I quickly...