Rosemary Caramel needs to be salted still and sliced. The cold has begun to scream and bite. Today, there was the gloom of snow. Dare I say it felt a bit like the sky was constipated. Heavy with a load of snow, grey from the misery of holding it...
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A perfect image for Cold Comfort Farm, taken here at Wildflower. This month we read Cold Comfort Farm By Stella Gibbons, was this month’s book. We needed something a bit lighter in subject matter. I thought a spoof on the D.H. Lawrence...
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Molasses cookies for book club, to commemorate The Great Molasses Flood of Boston’s North End. I made molasses cookies for the Book Club, on this most recent past Sunday. I thought it would be funny sitting only about an hour to an hour and...
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Bottling fresh body moisturizing cream. Autumn is coming quickly, I can see it everywhere now. it is possible to breathe it right in outside. The local orchards spread the apple scent all over town as the air cools from the mucky sludge it has...
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Fog The house of Sand and Fog, was our subject at yesterday’s book club gathering. One thing I find interesting about fog, is that it doesn’t just exist hanging over the ocean. You can find it right here at Wildflower Farm. Because...
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The Mirror Crack’d Movie Night Last night was the book club’s movie night. It was a very small gathering. It’s difficult to do nice things with lack of reliability. My hope is this is not going to become the standard. And to...
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Setting the scene for In The Woods by Tana French As usual lately the book club met today. A small group of us anyway. A smaller group than usual lately, we meet to discuss books. Life happens though and as committed as we all are, it...
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Some book club snacks Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Cracked From Side To Side, is a victorian/flapper mystery novel inspired by the famous Lady Of Shalott Poem, by Tennyson. it is about an actress from the early black and white era of film...
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The Winter Hearth. Ms. Marple was an avid knitter, perhaps more a knitter untangling a yarn than a detective. Agatha Christie was an interesting lady. At one point she disappeared and turned up sometime later going by her husband’s...
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The Flower Grotto, the meeting place of our women’s book club. Wildflower Farm, is a small self sufficiency homestead farm and B&B in New England. It hosts a women’s book club. A small sorority of book loving women who make up the...
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Traditional Old Fashioned Homestead Muffins, Wildflower Style! Trapped like the rest of you due to the situation with the Corona Virus, I have become trail cook so to speak. We homestead folk, like the rest of you are trying as hard as we can not...
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