Ducks in the Dog House
/Really, they actually go in there! So fun.
Shaggy Mane
/I never forget these great fall additions to my bounty. Yummy and lovely, they sprout up around the sheep's hooves in the high field.
The were never born... :(
/Two ducks sat on their nests for a good month to six week. No ducklings this year. The flocks remain content.
End of Summer Harvest
/Last weekend we pulled great bounty from the gardens: all sorts of peppers, leeks, onions, carrots, beets, husk cherries, raspberries, various squash, kohlrabi, rutabega, beans and some resilient tomatoes that had not yet faded away. We also harvested herbs: chamomile, spilantes, horehound, sage, thyme, rosemary and lavender. Earlier, we'd benefited from a bounty of motherwort, nettles, violet, echinacea, marshmallow, calendula, rhodiola, milk thistle, lemon balm, bee balm, astragalus, elecampane and mullein...among so many others. Still in the mad rush to can the remaining tomatoes, we've made jar upon jar of salsa, sauce and roasted varieties. Now...to can, dry or root cellar the harvest. Goodbye summer .... hello fall and ... welcome to coming winter.
