So far we’ve had a great fruit harvest
Besides harvesting many wild pin cherries and chokecherries, the wild plums are coming on like mad. Not to mention our own tame fruit. We've been especially thrilled with our Hansen's Bush Cherries. The fruit...
Today was cooler so I made an apple pie
Watching our orchard apples ripening, I got so hungry for an apple pie that I decided to take a few minutes and make one. None of ours were ripe yet so I grabbed five...
Harvest is starting
Although we have just got a few ripe tomatoes, I'm starting in canning in earnest. I already did my batch of rhubarb conserve, then on Friday, I went out and picked all of our...
A visit to the apple man, Beryl Novak
Because we're starting a new homestead and planting lots of fruit trees, I was tickled to meet a self-taught fruit tree expert while shopping last year. Since then, I've been to his homestead up...
Sorry for not blogging
After a lengthy downhill slide, Mom passed away Friday morning, at the nursing home, in her sleep. We had known it was coming as she had been failing quickly, so my sisters and I...