How-to: Hickory Nuts
Since moving up here we’ve tried a lot of new things, from foraging for nuts to hopefully making our own maple syrup. With many of these endeavors we’ve had a challenging time finding clear and succinct how-tos, so as we…
Hickory dickory dock
I’m not sure how Amanda knows all this stuff, but a few weekends ago she picked up what appeared to me to me a small bruised apple and said she thought it was a hickory nut. After consulting our two…
The Harvest
Our garden is the vegetable version of Noah’s ark, we basically have two of everything. This year instead of going for a big crop of anything we planted a wide variety of plants to see what would do well, so…
Ramps!
Wild daffodils are sprouting up in every open patch on the whole 9 acres. Along with the daffodils are patches of green sprouts, a little different than the daffodil leaves and unidentifiable to us novices. At first we thought these…