by Kristin Echols | Oct 17, 2021 | Cooking, Homestead
I’m beginning to wonder if any year will be “normal” in the garden. 2021 proved to be another challenging growing season. In February and March, I started most of my veggies indoors from seeds. Five varieties of tomatoes, three tomatillos, six...
by Kristin Echols | Aug 2, 2019 | Cooking, Homestead
Last year, we only got a few zucchini from our garden. It was our first year, but any self-respecting gardener should be able to grow a decent zucchini. We were beginning to doubt ourselves. How would we survive a zombie apocalypse if we couldn’t grow a simple...
by Kristin Echols | Dec 3, 2018 | Cooking, Homestead
I’m sure many of you are wondering what happened to those two cute little pigs named Breakfast & Dinner. Come on, you knew this day would come folks. *** Warning ************* There are a couple graphic butchery photos below, so just stop now if that...
by Kristin Echols | Oct 28, 2018 | Cooking, Homestead
It was hot. Then it was not. We had mid to upper 90s in August, a week or so of 80s in September, then it dropped into the 60s mid-month. On October 3rd, we had our first freeze. That left us with a bunch of green tomatoes still on the vine, so we canned green...
by Kristin Echols | Aug 13, 2018 | Cooking, Homestead
After a couple of weeks with days in the 90’s (and two over 100), we are starting to see fruit and vegetables ripening in our garden. We’ve picked some cherry tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, Armenian cucumbers, onions, tomatillos, chilies, and plums. ...
by Kristin Echols | Jul 16, 2018 | Cooking, Homestead
I like cherries. In the past, I would buy a pound or so at a time when they are in season and enjoy eating them fresh. But now I have so many cherries I don’t know what to do with them. From our two trees, we have picked 12 lbs of sweet Bing cherries, 13.5...
