Why do we bother? All this extra work and time spent making, baking, prepping, tending, feeding and watering. It seems like a lot - and some

And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker"-- so God made a Farmer. God said, &quot

Using whatever variety of dried herbs you like, place in a mortar with pestle and add course salt and peppercorns.

No country french farm scene would be complete without the scent of lavender floating on the breeze.  While we are definitely not in Paris,

We have more cucumbers than we know what to do with.  Went a little overboard this planting season... oops.  I have been drinking cucumber w

Using the ripened Romas, we decided to preserve some of our pasta sauce that we usually make with canned tomatoes from the grocery store.

Break out the mason jars, folks - we're canning!  This recipe is SUPER simple.... but really delicious. Mint Simple Syrup Ingredients:

It has been just about six months of not having to buy eggs from the grocery store.  While that isn't an incredible savings (yet), it is

I did not plan on becoming a gardener.  In fact, I truly believed I had a "gang-green thumb".  I could not grow something edible.

Freshly picked Maine blueberries. Summer doesn't get much sweeter than that. This past weekend, we stumbled across a whole hedgefull of...

"Come at evening or at morning. Come when expected or without warning. A thousand welcomes you'll find here before you. And the oftener...