Strawberries are Ripe for Pick’N!

It’s officially strawberry picking time here in Michigan. While we’ve been harvesting and enjoying our own strawberries from the garden, last week local U-Pick farms hung out the shingle for strawberries. So, yesterday afternoon the four of us visited a local farm to pick fresh strawberries! The fields were full of the sweet berries and we filled a tray in what seemed only [...]

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Chevre means “Goat”

Holly, my daughter’s Alpine doe.

If you visit any country in the world, you’ll probably find cheese on the table! Through history, cheese appeared on the scene only after man domesticated animals. It’s not hard to imagine a biblical David with a bag of dried curds hanging from his belt as he delivered cheese and drink [...]

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Welcome to My Veggie Garden – A Sneak Peek!

Welcome to our garden! Our raised bed veggie garden is a mix of some of our fav veggies like sugar snap peas, tomato, peppers, salad greens, beets, carrots, green beans and more; small fruits including currants, strawberries, raspberries, culinary herbs and a few edible flowers. Most visitors are surprised by and interested in our raised beds. Here, sugar [...]

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