For me, there is no greater time of the year in Minnesota than this fleeting height of summer. When the days start early and the sun shines long. The sun is our heartbeat, keeping us strong and well. Warm on our shoulders, twinkling in our hair, growing kid freckles and garden fruits. OH the garden fruits!
Archives for July 2016
Cherries, cherries, everywhere
Excuse my silence, but these sticky hands have been busy processing cherries. Remember that pick-your-own excursion that got me slugging 40lbs of cherries home? Well, yes, we needed to pit every. single. one. and do something with the cherries. Whew! Really, though, it was enjoyable work with this whiz of a cherry pitter I picked up at the farm […]
Door County Bounty
Every homesteader needs a little travel adventure, too, right? It takes a bit of coordinating, but we try to make it happen a few times each summer, and it works out with the help of some extremely generous friends and neighbors! There is a lot to do on the little peninsula that juts out into Lake […]
A Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail Supper
On the heels of our massive raspberry harvest, we begin the blackberry harvest! Oh I do love having a constant supply of fruit in the yard. Now some of you might not bat an eye at my harvest. I hear walls of plump blackberries grow like weeds in some parts of the world. Well, this is […]
Rhubarb-Orange Marmalade
This was us today! E’s face would twist with the sour juices of rhubarb, but he eagerly went back for more, bite after bite. We always have so much fun with our big rhubarb harvest! Rhubarb in July? You might ask. Well, I’ll let you in on a secret – Rhubarb is good for harvest […]
Vegetable Fireworks
Call it beautiful, or call it lazy – I love to let plants set seed throughout the garden beds. The unruliness of seed and flower stalks flapping to and fro reassures me that life is beautiful even when I don’t have everything buttoned up and put away. They sorta scream “Just relax, it will be what it […]