The small suburb of Los Angeles where I spent my youth was a bedroom community with nice plots and manicured front lawns. Children were everywhere…
Category: In the Garden
Fresh from the Field Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin pie and I have made a bit of a journey together. Up until a decade or so ago, I used canned pumpkin and its…
Kohlrabi Crunch Salad
We have a lot of kohlrabi in our garden this spring. I am trying to remember to replant each time I pull one from its…
Apple Harvest
Mike planted 20 plus varieties of apples in our orchard. We have pie apples, sauce apples, snack apples, brandy apples and cider apples. To further…
Quince Fruit Leather
As a kid, I brought a sack lunch to school every day…as did most of my classmates. What I would never find packed in my…
Dried Persimmons
Persimmons seem to be a bit misunderstood. Some varieties need to ripen on the tree and be very soft, otherwise they are astringent, while others…
Tomatoes
I have loads of these gorgeous, albeit small, tomatoes. My sink is a bath of hot soapy water, as I prepare jars for canning. My…
Plums
The weather is turning. This morning we picked the almost last bit of plums. Scout is a good early morning companion; she loves fruit as a treat. These bright…
message in a bottle
Spring arrives and we run in full sprint preparing and tending. Summer has us watching, patiently waiting. Fall arrives with a prize: fruit grown in.the.…
brandied apricots
We picked a bucket load of apricots the other day, and i have been working to preserve them for our winter larder. This year I…