Posted in Changing Seasons, From my kitchen, Locally grown, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Aug 25th, 2010
The tomatoes are starting to ripen! Can’t wait to take them in to BCS on Friday!! Families have been asking for the last month when we’d have fresh, ripe tomatoes.
90 percent of the tomatoes are still green, including many gigantic beefsteaks, like this Brandywine (look at that sucker in my hand! HUGE!). If you’ve got [...]
Posted in Moderation and Economy, Sewing on Aug 21st, 2010
Look what a $1 thrifted double bed sheet, $0.35 worth of thrifted ribbon and eyelet lace, 2 buttons, and 3 hours of time can produce:
A PARTY FROCK!
The project is based on Made by Heidi’s Tutorial, although I made a few small changes (fully lined the dress, widened the bodice, used eyelet trim for the shoulders [...]
Posted in Moderation and Economy on Aug 17th, 2010
Our chicken coop got a make-over this week! Our next-door neighbors were getting rid of an old window, and they offered it to us since it was the perfect size for the hen house. My husband cut a hole, attached the window, and then cut a nice frame out of trim we’d removed from a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2010
A few things picked one morning this week in the BCS Teaching Garden! Lots of Blue Lake pole beans, summer squash, kale, French Tarragon, chives, Italian flatleaf parsley, spearmint, nasturtium flowers, and a little bit of rhubarb.
We currently have volunteers coming three days a week to help with the harvest, and they [...]
Posted in From my kitchen, Locally grown on Aug 12th, 2010
Ah, summer dinners in the backyard…
Here’s one of my favorite summer dessert recipes – we’ve been making a lot lately, with whatever fruit we have on hand:
Larksong’s Farm Stand Fruit Pie
For the filling:
5 peaches, peeled and sliced or 10-12 apricots sliced
4 big handfuls of raspberries, blueberries, or blackberries
2 Tbsp cornstarch
1/2 cup white sugar
For the crust:
1 [...]
Posted in Crafting, Moderation and Economy, Sewing, Uncategorized on Aug 4th, 2010
A few more twirly skirts for the girls (yes, I’m addicted to sewing these!)
This one, which is a bit shorter (hits just below the knee on Little Hen) is a mix of thrift store fabric and 1/2 yd of clearance fabric, and thrifted ribbon (at the bottom). Total cost = $2.10!
This is my favorite – [...]
Posted in Crafting, Moderation and Economy, Sewing on Aug 3rd, 2010
The girls have finally gotten their long-asked-for twirly skirts! I used 7 Layer Studio’s tutorial and Going Sew Crazy’s as well, and sort of mushed them together, used whatever measurements of scrap fabric I had on hand. Thankfully, twirly skirts are pretty forgivable and they turned out great!
Little Hen’s skirt used some thrift store fabric, [...]
Posted in Locally grown, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Aug 2nd, 2010
A few quick shots from the garden this evening at sunset. It’s changing so much every day – the paths are disappearing, the dahlias have begun to bloom, and there will be the first of the pole beans to harvest by the end of the week.
The beautiful blue-green foliage in the lower left of this [...]