New England’s Answer to Alaskan Nettle Bread. Sitting here, in the wood stove’s warmth, I can see the trees, they look cold and stressed by the winter. Perhaps it is the unwinter like warmth lately… It is February, usually a...
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Goat’s Milk Soap Bar When we moved here, costs began to mount. More for gas to go do pretty much anything. It was time to get more self sufficient to save some money. I was buying great skin care products that I absolutely loved. (Bless you...
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Long Winter Spice Muffins decorated for Christmas. The grey outside continues. You can now smell the unfallen snow. The farm has grown into it’s winter quiet. The bleakness has only strengthened outside. Inside, the kitchen is a wreck. No...
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Wildflower Farm Christmas Peppermint Bark. Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day, are special times here at Wildflower for many reasons. Mostly, we do an obscene amount of cooking. We like to make some candy such as a nice peppermint bark, and almond...
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Wildflower Gingerbread Cookies My cheeks are cold and rosy from the growing chill outside. It seems this is finally the end of the far too warm early winter. The big freeze is just beginning to rear it’s ugly head. Right now I am excited by...
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Hot Chocolate The trees have grown skeletal, and the grass too has thinned out and browned some. The sky was clear today, a New England bright blue color that whispered of the cold, bright but frigid. I spent much of the day outside in the yard...
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Pikku, and Yoda, do Christmas in comfort. One lays on the floor not far from the wood stove, the other takes over a comfy fluffy chair. I thought I would share some photos of Wildflower, as it has managed to do most of it’s transformation...
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Christmas tree at Wildflower Farm 2021 Yesterday, we began gathering everything to enjoy a really beautiful holiday. This little B&B lends itself beautifully to an old fashioned and rustic primitive christmas. So we try to play on that with...
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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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Haus of Nakke Today, the sky is blue with puffy clouds. But it was only a couple days ago now, that I looked up to see the winter grey of unfallen snow, up above in the sky. I am a New Englander, we are like the Irish. Perhaps all coastal and or...
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Chocolate Cinnamon Buns, still need to add glaze on top. Today was a day of ruined plans… It began last night with my cast iron frying pan. Dr. Farmer Moomin, used it to produce a lovely dinner. He knows that is my go to pot. I use it for...
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