Well, now that summer is actually here, it’s blazing hot! Which I really don’t mind, at least for now. The peppers, tomatoes and squash in the garden are loving it and getting huge, but some of the other plants aren’t quite as happy. Everything is flowering… and some flowers you want, some you don’t! What…
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How to Cook Beets and Beet Greens
Beets are not always a well loved vegetable, but when prepared correctly they are delicious! Beets with their greens are two for one deal as they can both be used. I’ll show you how to cook beets and beet greens with a recipe for roasted beets and sauteed beet greens! Beets: Two Vegetables in One…
Updates and Recent Happenings: More Elderflowers and a Kombucha Baby
It’s almost the summer solstice, can you believe it? It happens this Sunday (at 9:38am Pacific Time, to be exact), and is the longest day of the year and the official start of summer (although it’s felt like summer here for quite a few weeks already). Such an awesome time of year. This week we…
How to Build a Permaculture Swale Planting Bed
Hello my gardening friends! As I alluded to in my recent updates post, I have a really cool project to share with you today. If you’ve been reading my blog for a little while then you know that I’m big into permaculture, and my husband Joel is even more so than me. He has taken…
Fermented Cattail Shoots
Well hello there! I’ve been busy this weekend with my ferments, one of which has to do with cattail shoots. After we collected a good bunch of cattail shoots a couple of weeks ago I couldn’t quite decide what to do with them. When eaten raw they tasted similar to fresh cucumber, which made me…
Updates and Recent Happenings: Elderberries and a New Garden Bed
Lots of fun new things this week, namely Elderberries and a new garden bed! This past week has been HOT! It’s not even quite summertime, but we had 100°F temps for several days. It’s cooled off a bit now, thankfully, but it’s still delightfully warm. To get out of the heat on one of my…
Growing and Foraging for Lemon Balm
You have probably seen lemon balm growing whether you knew it or not. In the mint family, lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) is a perennial herb that spreads rapidly and has become a fairly common “wild” plant. When I’m out foraging and I see what looks like a plant in the mint family it is more…
How to Make Wildflower Mead
Here is a great recipe for how to make wildflower mead (honey wine) using foraged flowers from your yard. The finished mead is dry, with a hint of sweetness and a wonderful floral aroma. A must make mead recipe when wildflowers are plentiful in summertime! Simple Mead Making Ebook Want to learn more about making…
Updates and Recent Happenings: A Red Raspberry and A Kitten
Hello there! Did you notice that I missed a post this past week? I had one all planned out, a good one at that (Wildflower Mead!) but our internet went out for a few days so I wasn’t able to get it finished. Fear not, it will come out next week, and it’s a good…
Foraging for Cattails
Hello, my friends! Today we’re going to talk about foraging for cattails. I would be surprised if you didn’t know what cattails looked like. I think that it was one of the first wild growing plants that I could identify when I was a kid, along with dandelions and clover. Besides being easy to identify,…
