by Christine Sine It is blackberry picking season here in the Pacific NW and last week Mustard Seed House community members Dan and Lisa De Rosa went blackberry picking around…
by Christine Sine This week I have done an orgy of cooking from our garden produce – chocolate zucchini bread; pear and raspberry bread; Thai basil, cashew and coconut pesto,…
by Christine Sine I love this season of the year. The tomatoes and squash are ripening, the figs and pears have been harvested and we are about to harvest our…
Here in the Pacific NW, it is harvest season. A couple of weeks ago, I held an apple party to help me cope with the overwhelming harvest from our three…
Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.…
Yesterday Tom and I drove down from Portland Oregon to Eugene, past field after field of hay harvested and stacked. We also drove past fields of pumpkins ready for harvest.…
A few months ago we built new raised beds for the vegetable garden. To be honest I did not think that we would see much improvement because we have always…
Yesterday we harvested 40 lb of tomatoes and over 200 lb of apples. We are sharing them with friends, drying, canning and eating as fast as we can cope with…
