Favorite Things To Do: Teaching Canning and Harvesting Veggies
This afternoon’s harvest was tomatoes (large and cherry), zuchini, yellow beans, and basil. Putting up peaches on Sunday with Tracey. We had a good time.
Hot Days in the Piedmont: Dinner in the River
It was 105 – we found relief in the river with good friends and good food.
Storing food for use all summer and fall; the Spring House
Last weekend I harvested the carrot and beets before they got buggy in the ground. The Elephant Garlic is out of the ground and we dug all the potatoes. Here they are in our 1911 Spring House – staying relatively…
Leni’s Summer Tomato Salad
The first big tomatoes are ripening on the vine; and we did eat three tiny cherry tomatoes yesterday . . . . . . The cucumbers won’t be fruiting for weeks but I am dreaming of my favorite fresh summer…
More Ducks and Chicks
The chicks love being able to be outside. The older hens – in the pen next door – are very interested in these strangers! The ducks are soooooooo very happy to be swimming. They are locked in a tight pen…
The Ducklings
Our little guys so much bigger, still fluffy, but real feathers are beginning to peek through the bright yellow fuzz. Tomorrow we will build a shallow paddling pond to turn them on to swimming. In the mean time they have…