Seed-spiration My seed buying for next year has already started! I’m only five or six months ahead of time! We are planning a prairie garden for a space behind our barn where we used to plant pumpkins, melons, and one year, even corn! My husband and I found that although we both like to plant,…
September Evenings Last night my husband and I picked apples. We didn’t go anywhere, just our front yard! Mainly, we have Cortland’s this year. We have enough to make pies and cider. Tomorrow, we’ll host a group of friends for what is becoming an annual cider making party. Did you know it takes one five…
Part of our home fruit orchard consists of several plum trees. I believe we have four varieties: Kaga, Toga, and Italian (Stanley) Prune Plums. I’ve been watching the trees since it appeared that we were going to have plums to harvest. Today, one of the trees had some that were ripe enough to pick. I…
May becomes June Seriously, I do not know what happened to the month of June this year! Having an extremely busy May due to a high school graduation, family coming in from out-of-town, applying for an interim seat on our school board, and getting 400+ school children in the school garden to plant, as well…
This morning I am having some trouble deciding what to post. As I was scrolling through my social media feed I noticed that a page out of Texas was having trouble with people stealing their content and posting it as their own, without any attribution. Their page is used to educate the public on the…
Recently, while reading posts offered by members of a reflective blog writing group to which I belong, there were a couple that caught my eye. The authors, two separate people, wrote on the memories that specific plants evoke for them. I understood completely! Plants are powerful! My grandma always had african violets. They seemed to…
Some areas across the nation have already started back to school! I know this from listening to the news, reading social media, belonging to a teacher blog-writing community, and talking with friends. Here, in the upper mid-west, our summer is not quite over, but it is close. Most districts have two to three more weeks…
For the last 18 years, we’ve had a home fruit orchard. I can’t call it a backyard orchard as it was at our first home in the mid-west, as our 30 trees are in our front yard at our current house. It’s been so long that we’ve had fruit-growing in our yard, I really almost…