Tag: garden
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Let’s Make Apple Cake

With a particularly fruitful apple crop this year, I’ve had to be very creative with baking and preservation. I think I’ve got every apple variety known to humankind since I just keep adding trees to the farm every few years. I’m not complaining, just on overdrive thinking of ways to use up all those delicious…
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Let’s Make Eggplant Parmigiana

September may be here, but don’t even talk to me about pumpkin spice. Not when my summer garden is still going strong. There is plenty of time to still enjoy the masses of veggies still being produced, and one of those is eggplant. 🍆🍆🍆 “Whaaat?” you might say, if you’ve never tried cooking with eggplant.…
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Best Recipe Time!

Hey Gardening, Cooking & Reading Friends! Here it is almost August and there’s so much going on! I know you signed up for the garden goodies, tasty tidbits, farm frolics, and inspiration, so I do have a special treat for y’all. The #1 thing I’m always asked to share is my tasty, never-fail, tried and…
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Plant the Rainbow!

Plant The Rainbow! How are your tomatoes doing? It’s nearly July and they should be coming on pretty heavily. Here’s a little throwback to a few years ago when I decided to experiment with heirlooms: Growing up in an old gardening family, one would think that heirloom tomatoes would have been the norm. But honestly,…
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Time to Bloom

Gardening has always been a major part of my life, probably consuming more of my time than any of my other occupations. As I drag around my hose, eating watermelon and spitting out the seeds, I dream of the giant, green-striped fruits that would appear there the next year, as if by magic. Now, mind…