Picking pin cherries and chokecherries to make Famous Jackie’s Mustang Cherry sauce
Well, I beat the birds to my pin cherry trees. Almost. Kind of. I was out there picking with David in the morning because I'd seen cedar waxwings down the trail. They can clean...
The weather station is posting the F word
No, not that "F" word — frost! Tomorrow night, the temperature is diving down to a forecast of 35 degrees F. That's fine, but we usually have temperatures about 5 degrees colder than what...
We hit 24 degrees last night
And yes, we had frost — again! We knew it was coming so yesterday we harvested beans like crazy; Will did two five-gallon buckets full and I did four. Then we were up until...
Harvest continues despite our drought
From a too-rainy early summer, we've moved on to drought. It seems the weather gets stuck in one mode or another lately. So we broke out the irrigation pump last week and got everything...
Q and A: learning to make cheese, dandelion syrup, and starting seeds in peat...
Learning to make cheese
I would really like to try a cheese making class. One where you spend the whole day or weekend actually making the cheese, not just watching someone do it. I live...