Gardening, Cooking & DIY Living
My family has made this Waldorf salad recipe for as long as I can remember. It is a family tradition, that still stands today, that we would prepare this recipe as part of our Thanksgiving menu. And I can remember
If you’ve always wanted to grow grapes – now is the time to get started! Springtime is the perfect time to plant a few grape vines to enjoy bountiful harvests for years to come. Planting a small selection of
Hands down – Thanksgiving will always be one of our favorite holidays of the year. Mary put it best when she described it a few weeks back in one of her recipe posts. She wrote that Thanksgiving is the chance to
I’m not sure how it happened – but somehow the mid-way point of the year has come and gone – and summer will soon become fall. It never ceases to amaze me how quickly a year can roll by. It
So what to do when you have some old left over wooden windows, a pile of reclaimed brick and a hillside area that needs a focal point? Build a hillside pergola of course! Actually, as we spoke of a few
One of our many dreams on the farm has always been to plant and develop a little vineyard on the hillside. Almost all of our crazy ideas begin with some type of “future vision” – and this one was born
Someone somewhere needs to explain to Mother Nature that we should not be battling frost a few days before June! But there we were on Friday night, and again last night – covering every single at-risk garden plant and flower from
72. That was the magic number of 12″ wide and 30″ deep holes that we had to dig at the farm last week. Between the 26 holes needed for the fence to enclose the garden – 30 for the vineyard
Remember the old commercial from Paul Mason? : “We will make no wine before it’s time”. Well – theses days…I certainly have a whole new appreciation for that saying! There are some things that just take time, and grapes, grapevines
It is amazing how quickly the time rolls by – it seems like we were just taking photographs for May – and here we are in July! In spite of high temperatures, little rain and some bad storms – the