Blog Posts
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Making Your Own Maple Syrup: A Learning Curve!
It’s sort of a no-brainer, that when you move to the country and are surrounded by maple trees, you get….ambitious. Visions of a pantry filled with beautiful syrup fill your head. After all, it’s free!!! I have long-ago memories of my parents collecting sap in their sugarbush in Maine. They would drag a toboggan through…
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GARDENS & PLANS and WHY WE KEEP TRYING
I went a little crazy in the Spring of ’23….. I had been given the gift of a legacy garden space. Sixty feet by forty feet of incredibly fertile, beautiful, soil. A little greenhouse. A few separate beds. A cold frame. And a “potting shed” full of pots, tools, and bags of miscellaneous bug-killing, root-nourishing…
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The Power of Perspective
I have a friend who has been teaching me about perspective. They are pretty old-probably over 100 years. They have endured much, and witnessed things I can only imagine. They have been split in half and yet remain tall and strong. No matter the weather, my friend is always there on the path, offering solidity…
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MUD SEASON (my first blog post!)
You know, we’re doing fine up here on the mountain! We’ve got snow! We’ve got rainbows! We’ve got food in the larder! It’s all great until you have to actually GO somewhere. That’s right, folks, it’s Mud Season. And this year, just for kicks, we’re getting TWO mud seasons; the present one is just the…