October is more than half over, and I have yet to talk about our fall garden. The garden beds are getting cleaned out and mulched, where they will lie dormant for the winter and awaken again next spring. Two weeks ago, we picked a box full of sweet, juicy apples from our tree. These nameless apples have a lovely […]
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Just when I thought the kitchen chaos was slowing down, my aunt gifted me a ten pound bowl of Italian prune plums from her backyard tree. Although August is gone, there are technically still several weeks of summer left in September, and this year, our weather insists that we take notice. Humid heat is hovering in the 30C (90F) range, and means that […]
There is a cool mist in the air this morning as there has been all week. It’s still warm outside, but hardly like it was in the midst of the prolific heat we had this summer. I am looking forward to cooler temperatures and light showers that come with early fall. Four weeks ago, I was dreading […]
The heat of summer has been relentless this year. We are in the middle of a record-breaking stretch of hot, dry days, and my kitchen is even hotter than outdoors! There have been pots boiling on my stove for days now, blanching, cooking, and canning my way through the beauty of our summer harvest. While our little garden does […]
Today we harvested the crown jewel of our garden…. our plump, juicy, crisp Purple Russian garlic. We bought three beautiful bulbs of organic garlic from a farmer’s market five summers ago. Over that time, we have multiplied those three bulbs to just over sixty each season, for the last four seasons. Although it has one of the longest growing […]
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