Garden Activities Pruning fruit trees - but staying inside while the white stuff comes down!
Taking a break over the holidays!
Raking up leaves around the trees - no use letting them go to waste on the grass!
Planting a few extra garlic cloves in pots. They make nice gifts!
What’s Happenin’ in the Kitchen? Kale, kale, and more kale! Combined with garlic, of course! With chicken, cauliflower, over pasta, in stir-fries…you name it. Kale rules!
Homemade bone-broth soup with ham, beans, carrots, onions, kale - a chilly day - perfect for hot soup!
More dried apples & gingerbread w/molasses & fresh chopped ginger - yum!
Pumpkin custard with whipped raw cream…yum! Thank you Dungeness Valley Creamery!
Homegrown potato-leek soup w/shallots :P I Love soup weather!
MORE dog biscuits! "Woof!"
Drying apples
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Weather – What’s Going On Out There?
Snow is almost gone - the wind and rain have chased it out of here! Hold on to your hats! Surf is UP. Most definitely.
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March 10th, 2010 |
Early March: what’s in the garden? Chard, kale, collards, beets, leeks, early garlic & onions, lots of herbs, rhubarb — and then there are some of the bold & unusual: lovage, French sorrel, and cardoon — but don’t forget wild greens! Dandelions, nettles, mustards,chickweed, purslane, and others are nutritional powerhouses and are great to add to soups & salads before the rest of the garden gets going.
February 10th, 2010 |
It is that time of year again: Seed Catalog Frenzy season! Nothing like planning a garden to beat the winter doldrums! Here are a dozen of seed companies that are guaranteed to wake hibernating gardeners. If you are looking for organic, heirloom, and/or unusual varieties of veggies, herbs, fruits, flowers, and shrubs — look no further!
January 12th, 2010 |
Saturday, Jan. 16, is the PCC Farmland Trust tour of the Delta Farm, part of the 400+ acres farmed by Nash Huber and his crew. Sign up and see first hand how he manages to keep us all fed through the winter. While you’re in the area, stop in and see the Dungeness Valley Creamery, which recently received some bad press by the WSDA which implied a link between e. coli and their certified raw milk. Nothing could be further from the truth! See for yourself what a wonderful dairy they have and taste the difference in raw milk that comes from cows that are catered to! Supporting our local family farms is just so important to preserving farmland in our region. It is such a privilege to have them here. Meet the hands that provide us with such incredible bounty!
December 16th, 2009 |
Countdown to Christmas! Here are 20 ideas of easy, last-minute gifts you can make from your garden!
July 22nd, 2009 |
The Sequim Lavender Festival has turned Sequim, WA upside down! Many small farms across the country are turning to agritourism as a means of keeping the farm afloat.
July 4th, 2009 |
An Angelica plant seems to be exploding in celebration! Happy Independence Day everyone!
June 12th, 2009 |
I have been getting a lot of questions about garlic scapes lately – and in checking my blog stats, a lot of people are searching for recipes using scapes. Scapes, those curly flower shoots from the hardneck varieties of garlic, arrive just as we are running out of our green garlic harvest. My favorite way [...]
June 20th, 2008 |
Despite the cold spring here in the Pacific Northwest, the garlic has been thriving! We got everything weeded over the weekend and thoroughly watered. You can almost feel them reaching upward, waiting for that promised sunshine! As you can see from the photos, I planted the garlic rather densely in beds (4 rows/bed) this year, [...]
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