You really, truly MUST go watch this video from Maple Valley Farm!! I am so inspired to try my hand at soap making after watching how easy it is!
Check it out at
http://eclecticculturefarm.blogspot.com/2010/08/todays-soap-episode.html
or here
http://www.wzzm13.com/video/take_five_default.aspx?menuid=188#/Take%20Five/Make%20your%20own%20soap/51295455001/51120544001/594119748001
Do you have soap making experience? If so, what are your favorite essential oils/exfoliants/colorings? These would make truly fantastic Christmas gifts!
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
I'm still here!!!
I am still here! This summer the garden has been so successful, I had to make a choice between blogging about canning and gardening and actually working at the canning and gardening...I chose the real thing. My sweet neighbor said she thought blogging might be a winter sport! ROFL!! How great is that? I am taking lots of pictures and trying to keep records of all the yummy produce coming in. Hang in there! I'll be back with lovely visuals and details of our most productive summer yet!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Welcome to Fresher than Fresh...Cooking with Scapes
We've been watching a bit too much Food Network...bear with me...
Here's a pic of the garden from last week!
Garlic scapes that were harvested in order to encourage healthy, big elephant ear bulbs:
The scapes were chopped up and drizzled with bit of Olive Oil and some Parmesan Cheese then ground in my sweet neighbor's baby food mill (which I promise I will return any day now):
Then I put the garlic scape pesto in ice cube trays to freeze it:
We had pasta with garlic scape pesto and BOY, HOWDY...did it have a kick. Not sure if ours was a bit more stout than most or what, but I'll probably be mixing this in with other pasta sauces or traditional pesto in small amounts to add some flavor. I must say it was a bit too strong to eat solo, but the flavor was amazing.
In addition, we've canned 2 pints of pickled beets, 10 pints of carrots, and frozen 1 gallon of strawberries from our garden! This weekend, we'll be heading out to pick some wild blackberries as well as harvesting some of our own!
In the garden, I'm slowly pulling up the spinach and lettuce that's all bolting to feed to the chickens and the bunny. The garlic is almost ready to pull and we'll soon begin digging up and canning potatoes in earnest. The tomatoes are full of golf ball sized green tomatoes and the onions get bigger each day. Green beans are beginning to bloom and I'll be planting black-eyed peas this weekend. Busy, busy, busy!
Here's a pic of the garden from last week!
Garlic scapes that were harvested in order to encourage healthy, big elephant ear bulbs:
The scapes were chopped up and drizzled with bit of Olive Oil and some Parmesan Cheese then ground in my sweet neighbor's baby food mill (which I promise I will return any day now):
Then I put the garlic scape pesto in ice cube trays to freeze it:
We had pasta with garlic scape pesto and BOY, HOWDY...did it have a kick. Not sure if ours was a bit more stout than most or what, but I'll probably be mixing this in with other pasta sauces or traditional pesto in small amounts to add some flavor. I must say it was a bit too strong to eat solo, but the flavor was amazing.
In addition, we've canned 2 pints of pickled beets, 10 pints of carrots, and frozen 1 gallon of strawberries from our garden! This weekend, we'll be heading out to pick some wild blackberries as well as harvesting some of our own!
In the garden, I'm slowly pulling up the spinach and lettuce that's all bolting to feed to the chickens and the bunny. The garlic is almost ready to pull and we'll soon begin digging up and canning potatoes in earnest. The tomatoes are full of golf ball sized green tomatoes and the onions get bigger each day. Green beans are beginning to bloom and I'll be planting black-eyed peas this weekend. Busy, busy, busy!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Window Stars
When I began reading about Waldorf style education, I was fascinated by the tranquility of the environments for children...all natural materials...and the amazing colors. One of the things I noticed repeatedly was these lovely window stars that caught the sunlight. I finally decided that I needed to figure out how to make window stars so I can teach my big girl this summer! The rainbow window star was my first one then I made one with greens and yellows.
You can find directions on GardenMama's blog. I bought the kite paper from Nova Natural...I LOVE their store!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Each peach, pear, plum...
Remember those pears I showed you? Well, here's what they look like now!! WOW!!
We also added a plum tree to the OAH! Here she is! She's a Candy Rosa Plum:
And here are those tiny peaches you saw...isn't nature amazing?
We also added a plum tree to the OAH! Here she is! She's a Candy Rosa Plum:
And here are those tiny peaches you saw...isn't nature amazing?
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