Are You Gross Like Me?

I et a stinkbug yesterday. That’s an exaggeration. I chomped down on a stinkbug by accident and spit it out. The thing is, I wasn’t fazed by this, and for a second I was separating out the bits of stinkbug from the bits of mulberry in my mouth (because...

Fruit Bagging Experiment Results

A while back, I decided to try bagging one of the three Asian pears my tree successfully produced this year. I wanted to see if it made any difference in pest damage prevention. Here are the results: This is the unbagged pear: There’s no internal damage, no...

Gearing Up For Gifting: Suggestions, Please

I’m getting into the gift-making spirit. My favorite type of gift is homemade, and I love gift baskets, as evidenced by the entire chapter on homemade gift baskets in our book. However, as much as I love those ideas, I like changing them up a bit every year. I...

Passion Fruit Ice Cream Recipe

After staring down this ever growing bowl of passion fruit for a week, searching passionately for passion fruit recipes, I decided to make my own recipe. This is a creamy-smooth, less-sugar, custard-style homemade ice cream that walks the line between sophistication...

Home Farm Finds and Neat Stuff

It’s time to check out a few Labor Day sales in luscious yarn, southern grapes, my favorite cheesemaking supplies, and my new favorite pastime. Hint: it has nothing to do with labor: Down on the farm thoughts are turning to knitting, but it’s still too hot...