We harvested sumac too early in the season. But we were able to harvest more of it late in the fall and that worked! The fuzz off these...

Oooh, I love these gifts from Mother Nature! We have sweet peppers. I should have planted more! And we have some celery. This stuff is...

I do love the magic of composting. I really like these pictures too! Though I can understand if you like the calendula flower post...

Have you ever sucked on a fiberous 'stick' of sugarcane? Maybe you are in a far off place, and your host takes a knife and slices a cane...

We are watering most of the garden with drip hoses. We like the 1" hoses to the ½" hoses. They run along the beds watering the roots of...

This is not my popping corn. It went to the birds. My dreams of bowls of home grown popped corn apparently will remain dreams. My...

I finally caught, with my glance, one of the deer who is eating the tender green leaves of the berry bushes, and hostas, and arbor vitae....

We planted a lot of tomatoes this year. We tried out 4 kinds. I'm not sure if the reality of how many tomatoes we will have has quite...

This Tiger's Eye drying bean from the Seed Saver's Exchange is doing just what we hoped it would do. It's climbing up the corn stalk,...

This row is almost ready for the next harvest of the top quarter or so of each stem. This Genovese basil was chosen for our garden so we...

And here we have a fine impala hot pepper! It just looks hot, no? I am going to have a steep learning curve on hot sauce making!

These beans are meant to stay on the plant and develop the little beans inside the pods so we can dry them but as I was walking by this...

Posing for the photo, our three sisters (corn, squash and beans), are doing just what they are supposed to do! (It's rare we get such a...

Voila, the onion! This whole row is showing! The onion is pushing up its top above the soil saying "Look at me!". The greens are...

Sometimes the plants don't grow. We started this from seed and planted this parsley a bit late (ok, way late) and it is really...

Is the corn stalk pretty or scary? Scary to me: Corn planted in huge fields. I think of loud, expensive machines, GMOs, pesticides, and...

I'm not counting them until the harvest, but I'm very optimistic we will have more than 50 pears this year. Last year, with the weather...

The farm supply store had organic mulch paper on back order. What is organic mulch paper? It's the same material that some restaurants...

I hope you are as excited as I am to see photos of the garden beds. I realize this photo may look like yet another mess of little green...

We have moved all the little plants we started from seed! They are now outside in full sun, day and night, and almost all are in the...