We had a week full of the signs that summer is on its way! The pool is open, and despite the 68 degree water, the kids got in on Wednesday f...

 Reviewing our Thanksgiving begins with this beautiful picture of our carrots: our final garden harvest of the season. After peeling a...

About ten years ago, one of our friends admitted he had always presumed that pickles grew on trees...and thus begins a lifelong joke. Its ...

 We had quite a storm last Friday, coming through late at night with crazy winds and knocking out power to half our county (with many stil...

Yesterday I finished planting this year's vegetables and herbs. Its amazing to see the plants from March 21 doing so well, and funny to ...

It's spring! It has felt like spring for a while around here this year...at least for the past two to three weeks, but I was a bit too n...

This week I have... ...enjoyed the earliest spring I can remember, as exhibited above! Windows are open, birds are singing, (allergies are ...

Garden wrap up. On October 23 (!) I harvested another quart of green beans for the freezer, the rest of the carrots, more cherry tomatoes, a...

This week I am... harvesting green beans every other day...ones that were supposed to be ready to harvest in July, finally growing. blanchi...

This is about the unhealthiest way to eat zucchini that I have ever made. But each loaf does have 1 full cup of shredded zucchini in it!  I ...