July 2023
About a quarter mile down the road, our neighbors have honeybee hives, and the bees flock to my garden for the flowers I grow to draw them in. The neighbors get tasty honey, and I get pollinated plants. But this year the bees got a special treat: the plums grew thick and high, so I couldn’t reach them, and many…
Garlic is one of my favorite crops to harvest because it smells so darn good. The sharp tang of spicy garlic flavor mingles with the dark earth as you dig your fingers down by the roots. I’m impatiently waiting for four weeks for these to cure so I can start using them in dishes. You can never have too much…
Since moving to the country, I get colds and coughs a lot less often. Probably some combo of the good air and space between me and the other sick humans. I’m not immune, though, so there’s still usually one or two bad sicknesses each winter. I’m channeling my inner healer and preparing for the cold season by harvesting plantain leaves…
Most of my herb plants are thriving right now, and haven’t started to flower yet, so I’m cutting them way back and oven-drying the trimmings for use in food and teas. So far I’ve done oregano, peppermint, and lemon balm. Smelling these delicious bundles of herbs drying in the house has me thinking I might make some potpourri satchels if…
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During our first year here, I purchased and tried to grow rhubarb roots, but was unsuccessful. It may have had something to do with the fact that the company I purchased from was across the country, so whatever conditions that rhubarb was used to… were not my conditions here. This year, a neighbor generously offered us an endless pile of…
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