Animals
- Apple Harvest Weekend With Tyler
Autumn is here in full force!We spent a chilly weekend here on the farm, with temps barely out of the 50's. Hubbs and I picked enough apples on Friday to make a couple of gallons of apple sauce,an apple pie and an apple harvest cake.And with all...
- Rainy Days And Mondays
Today I wanted to share our amazing apple harvest with you.Every year we have bushels of ugly apples...apples that taste wonderful and make terrific sauce and pies...but are definitely ugly. You see, we don't spray our trees,so our apples are organic....
- Garden Delights
"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."-- Thomas Jefferson It seems there is nothing more peaceful to me than sitting in my garden,with a barn cat on my lap....watching...
- Apple Harvest
It's that time of year again!The days are warm, the nights are cool.The leaves are beginning to turn to shades of yellow and crimson.And with this time comes apple harvest. I headed to the orchard yesterday in search of apples for a very special dessert.A...
- Looking Ahead...blueberries, Looking Back....haiti
Beautiful weather this weekend enabled us to get a lot of outdoor projects completed. One of these was to place bird netting over all of our 106 blueberry bushes and the strawberry patch. Our 100 young blueberry bushes are loaded with...
Animals
Harvest Time
It's apple harvest time!
Can you believe it?
Well, you might believe it from where you are,
but... here...we have yet to even have a summer's worth of hot weather.
Still, I am not complaining.
I am not complaining...no, I am picking apples!!
And while they might not be the most beautiful apples,
they are quite tasty.... the best looking apple harvest we have ever had.
And making applesauce.
And...
Hubbs (who loves to tackle jobs with the appropriate tool) was in charge of
peeling apples...
I did the rest....
and voila! Pie!
Delicious fresh, homegrown apple pie in a flaky, all butter crust.
We are also harvesting carrots...
and giving the tops to....
Our hay is cut...keep your fingers crossed that we can get it to dry,
and get it baled before it gets rained upon.
- Apple Harvest Weekend With Tyler
Autumn is here in full force!We spent a chilly weekend here on the farm, with temps barely out of the 50's. Hubbs and I picked enough apples on Friday to make a couple of gallons of apple sauce,an apple pie and an apple harvest cake.And with all...
- Rainy Days And Mondays
Today I wanted to share our amazing apple harvest with you.Every year we have bushels of ugly apples...apples that taste wonderful and make terrific sauce and pies...but are definitely ugly. You see, we don't spray our trees,so our apples are organic....
- Garden Delights
"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."-- Thomas Jefferson It seems there is nothing more peaceful to me than sitting in my garden,with a barn cat on my lap....watching...
- Apple Harvest
It's that time of year again!The days are warm, the nights are cool.The leaves are beginning to turn to shades of yellow and crimson.And with this time comes apple harvest. I headed to the orchard yesterday in search of apples for a very special dessert.A...
- Looking Ahead...blueberries, Looking Back....haiti
Beautiful weather this weekend enabled us to get a lot of outdoor projects completed. One of these was to place bird netting over all of our 106 blueberry bushes and the strawberry patch. Our 100 young blueberry bushes are loaded with...