Most of our road trips involve food
I bought honeyberries and bush cherries from Honeyberry USA, in Bagley, Minnesota several years ago. (I had met Bernis and Jim Ingvaldson, the owners, at the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Conference in January, held...
Our fruit, both tame and wild is … well … running wild
We are so tickled that we are getting plenty of fruit this summer. I've been making pin cherry jelly from our wild pin cherries. They are so RED and jewel-like that I love picking...
Q and A: storing cheese and growing apricots
Storing cheese
Does coating cheese with red wax allow for it to be stored in a pantry? I purchased some red waxed cheese from the grocery store -- would this be shelf safe?
Judith Almand
Lithia, Florida
Probably...
We finally got a Baltimore Oriole
After weeks of waiting, we were finally rewarded by seeing a Baltimore Oriole in a birch tree off of our deck. He tried to drink from our hummingbird feeder with no results. He flew...
So far, everything’s coming along great
Our health has been wonderful and so has the weather. Will's been working at getting our gardens mulched and we've been weeding ahead of the mulching. But with four big gardens, it's sometimes a...