Author: wildflowerfarm

  • Anadama Bread, Celebrating Women’s Rights in New England

    Anadama Bread, Celebrating Women’s Rights in New England

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    wildflowerfarm

    The light outside the door of my house is brilliant and the sky too is brilliant in it’s blueness. We have had months of horrific heat and endless heavy rains, air so thick, heavy, and stagnant, that it has been unbreathable for over a month… But today, I hear the birds singing and the sky…

  • Yeast

    Yeast

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    wildflowerfarm

    I fully realize this is rather old fashioned to make yeast and to use it for my baking. But I do it anyway. Because it is healthier than just using that quick rising dry business. Yes, dry yeast takes the nutrition down in bread while real yeast actually raises it. I am not above some…

  • Whole Wheat Einkorn, Wild Blueberry, Earl Grey, Vegan Muffins

    Whole Wheat Einkorn, Wild Blueberry, Earl Grey, Vegan Muffins

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    wildflowerfarm

    By some miracle of the Fairy Queen in the woods, we seem to still have power. In fact, Henry, is far weaker than we thought it would be. Still, the forest is dancing around us. Bending and blowing, partnering with rain falling from the grey sky above us.

  • Waiting For Henry

    Waiting For Henry

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    wildflowerfarm

    The air is heavy. More of a sludge than air. It is unbreathable outside, in the calm before the coming hurricane. The air smells of grey and life about to be smoked by heavy winds tearing through laying waste to the beautiful trees of the forest. The air is electric with the coming force… And…

  • The Mirror Crack’d Movie Night… Yeh not so much.

    The Mirror Crack’d Movie Night… Yeh not so much.

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    wildflowerfarm

    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 add to the issues we had, we could not in the end access the Mirror Crack’d. So instead,…

  • How You Like Them Apples?!

    How You Like Them Apples?!

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    wildflowerfarm

      The sky is grey, has been all day. The air is stagnant. The smoke from the wild fires on the other side of the country is terribly suffocating when added to the choking humidity. It is a rare day this summer when it isn’t 90 plus degrees. The wildflowers, are out there like little…

  • Building an apothecary

    Building an apothecary

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    wildflowerfarm

    I have spent some time now studying herbalism through Cornell University. It has been amazing and interesting for those that love to use nature to heal.  Living out here it is rather imperative to keep an apothecary of healing herbs. Because we live a little distance from a hospital it can take time to get…

  • In The Woods By Tana French

    In The Woods By Tana French

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    wildflowerfarm

    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 isn’t possible all the time for everyone to make it. This was a meeting that suffered from more of…

  • The Garden Squatter

    The Garden Squatter

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    wildflowerfarm

    The sun was shining today, the air was actually clear and breathable for the first time in a month. I picked a bad time to return to my education.I would have been better served had I chosen to do so over the winter. Homesteading is labor intensive and time consuming especially this time of year.…

  • Bannish Tea For Female Woes

    Bannish Tea For Female Woes

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    wildflowerfarm

    We should all be adults here. I know I certainly am not writing for the under age crowd. I write assuming they are busy on Tiktok, not at all interested in what I have to talk about. My life is a very natural one in a vast many aspects. I like it that way. One…