The best time of the year
Autumn is my favorite time of the year, good harvest, bad harvest. Clear azure skies, brightly colored leaves and bursts of purple and yellow wildflowers are everywhere you look. There’s good firepit weather, low-wind and briskly cool. Dinners of roast potatoes. Apple crisp and cider. The sound of the train whistle in the distance as … Continue reading
Wild Things and a Savory Onion Bread Recipe!
For some time I have been trying to identify and catalog many of the naturally useful and ornamental plants here. Though I haven’t been able to focus on this activity as much as I would like, there has been an abundance of wild things growing this year which has made identification easier. Free Wild Roses One plant … Continue reading
Processing seeds and a Butternut squash and apple bread recipe
I planted an early garden this year which means that by May 12th the tomato plants went in before Memorial Day( which is this weekend). I had everything in except for all of the butternut squash. I discovered much to my shock that I had almost no seeds left from last year’s butternut squash seed … Continue reading
The Simmer Pot Cafe 