My Contribution To Book Club

My Contribution To Book Club

Baked pear bowl filled with fresh granola, later garnished with whipped cream and cinnamon. This morning, was a book club brunch tea meeting. For which I made baked pear. This is so simple. The only tough part is scooping it out to create the...

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Maple Chip Ice Cream

Maple Chip Ice Cream

Maple Chip Ice Cream The early august heat has become unbearable, and the air is so humid it is actually suffocating…. But in the ultra hot almost unbreathable air that burns as it enters your nose, the fragrance of fresh herbs and...

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Micro Canning Mulberry Jelly

Micro Canning Mulberry Jelly

Mulberry Jelly We are expecting storms… I am not yet convinced they will happen but I am hoping… It would save me time watering the garden. I have so much to get to…. But still, like a small leaf riding the wind, the smell of a...

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Wildflower In The Mist

Wildflower In The Mist

The mist has once again come to visit, it is playing in the forest with the trees. It rolled in with the wet and cold as if it were a team of wild horses dragging the mist with them rather than a cart. The smell of cold wind and wet surround me...

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Update on Vanilla Extract

Update on Vanilla Extract

The mist is thick, as we are not an intervale farm, sitting up high on ridge in the foot hills not far from Wachusett Mountain. We sit surrounded today in a thick dark sea of new England fog, rising off the icy snow that fell and iced over...

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One of the most important parts of farming and homesteading is organization. This pot rack ran us $110. It’s a bit of a DIY.  These three wooden bars are antique horse yolks. We hung them  on the  wall then just  popped ’em full of hooks. Now we...

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Homemade Vanilla Extract

Homemade Vanilla Extract

Homemade vanilla extract It is a lovely day here at Wildflower, the weather is nice not too cold, we have wispy clouds, and  sunshine, and it feels like early spring. Inside, I am wasting time and doing  just the  usual up keep. I have a  roast...

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A Farewell To Christmas

A Farewell To Christmas

Christmas Tree Ornaments. It’s perhaps my least  favorite day of the year. Outside I smell rain slicked ice and the damp NE cold. Inside I smell a that nice wood stove cozy smell. It is that sad day of the year, when Christmas, gets boxed...

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