Easy as Cherry Jam
Our Cherries and Essential Oils are ‘in a Jam’ We picked and pitted 50lbs of cherries in the last 3 days. I’m glad to say our counters are cherry free for the moment – unless they’re in jars becoming wine, in the...
Read moreOur Cherries and Essential Oils are ‘in a Jam’ We picked and pitted 50lbs of cherries in the last 3 days. I’m glad to say our counters are cherry free for the moment – unless they’re in jars becoming wine, in the...
Read moreOne of our farm goals is to teach and host a variety of classes. Right now I’m learning and sharing as much as I can about Essential Oils, but we hope to have a facility more conducive to having large groups of folks come and learn in a...
Read moreSo, to experiment with the versatility of sprouted whole wheat flour I made peanut butter cookies. (by using whole ingredients like these I convince myself the cookies are in some way good for me). Anyway, the cookies are great, but every great...
Read moreI’m in the process of learning a TON. Some of the stuff had been festering in my brain for some time, but it’s finally off the shelf and into reality. The class I’m taking is making me break down the barriers of confusion very...
Read moreNothing specific to say… no matter how romantic it may seem–there is some amount of–ahem, poop that goes along with chicken keeping…but, at least they’re laying! from Martha Stewart, lemon-cornmeal sheet cookie a...
Read moreI saw these via pinterest and actually used the idea! this is my plate of favorites, but we made all kinds. It was a great way to decorate shortbread cookies, especially for little hands. The end result is a bit like old-timey shortbread molds...
Read morePlay for me:: I’m excited to try and make these for myself when I get a spare minute. I’d actually played with trying to make a similar pattern a few years ago and gave up frustrated. Thanks M.S. for making it easier for me…...
Read morethe girls with the pumpkin we used for the bread & more. There are about 1.7b’zillion things I want to share here, but I’m going to focus on rounding out the ‘conclusion’ of the last post–especially since...
Read moreIt’s been an up and down kind of week. Naomi was sick at the beginning and we couldn’t identify why. I had a really bad Monday and am still working on letting go and moving on…meanwhile, financially we’re in a bit of a...
Read moreWe did play a little with heart related things today. (naomi loves copy work and I NEED to point out what a wonderful day I had with her. perhaps she’s beginning to turn the corner and return to comfort). We even found these coloring pages...
Read moreA few days ago we had folks over to swap diapers. Exciting, no?! It actually was pretty enlightening. There is a whole cloth-diaper lingo that one can’t possibly understand or even hope to, in one day. Pockets, AIO’s, OS’s...
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