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Plants that Give Back

Since moving to my new house, I’ve been intent upon getting a new pair of columnar apple trees. I had two in my old, smaller suburban backyard, and they were wonderful. The Emerald Spire grew to about...

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The sky is falling!

Seems appropriate…wasn’t that an apple falling on Chicken Little’s head which set the whole thing off? Two things I have a lot of around here right now: chickens and apples. The three new chickens are...

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Must Be Fall!

Yesterday I spent most of the day really feeling like it was fall. Got up to a fairly steady, normal fall rain, even! First I went out to the Apple Festival in Venersborg, WA. Venersborg is a very,...

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Millions of Peaches…Peaches for Me….

Well, not millions.   Last year we planted a Frost Peach tree near our garden, and waited to see what it would do.  This spring it had lots of beautiful pink blossoms, which our honeybees seemed to...

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Easiest Berry Pies

Strawberry season is either nearly over or completely over, depending on where you are in the country.  (We have maybe a week more here…got a late start this year!)  Raspberries are up next, then we’ll...

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