School is finally out and we have officially moved to the farm for the summer! Hooray! This means my family is on vacation but I am most certainly not. This is the time of year where I get to fret about tomatoes and take notes about radishes while they blow bubbles. It’s lovely and full […]
Foraging: Brewing Sumach Iced Tea
We spent summer drinking iced tea made from foraged sumach bobs. We’re enjoying it well into fall this year and have even frozen some of their fruit, known as drupes, for a vitamin C boost later this winter. One of my brothers was under the impressions that the gorgeous red blossoms of sumach trees were […]
A Little Taste of Summer as we move into Fall – Strawberry Picking and Jam
Well, baby Robin is seven weeks old today and although he is pretty much the most agreeable baby I’ve ever met he has requested to not be put down ever. Not even for a minute. This request is totally reasonable but not compatible with writing the blog post that is supposed to go with these photos. So […]
A Weekend Escape to Niagara Falls, The Good Earth and a Really Nice Hat
Just catching up after a nice weekend away in Niagara Falls. Living in Toronto, we’ve been many times and each season has it’s perks. The mist is cool in the summer, the icicles are stunning in the winter, Niagara Parks plants amazing gardens in the Spring. In Autumn it’s the gorgeous colours in the changing […]
How to Can a Bushel of Peaches in 7 hours with Some Swearing, a New Pot and 29 Jars
As mentioned in last week’s peach lemonade post and in our #canning play by play on twitter, we spent most of last Tuesday turning 1 bushel of gorgeous, perfect, marvellous Red Haven Ontario peaches from BizjakFarms into 29 jars of assorted canning goodness. I feel like this post is a little late as once […]