by Jeanne
Snakes in the garden scare many people. I used to be one of them. I thought copperheads lurked around every stone, just waiting to strike. October marks out 17th year living on Seven Oaks Farm in Central Virginia. Over the years, I have gotten to know, appreciate, and love the many snakes we have seen…
We didn’t set out to grow Jonathan apples, but this is the variety that thrives in our zone 7B garden. We purchased seedlings from the Arbor Day Society and planted our home orchard in December 2007. Today, we have many fruit trees, including our beloved Jonathans that are my new favorite apple. Here’s how to…
A no-salt, nutritarian, vegan dinner that’s easy to make on a busy night I made this stuffed peppers without rice recipe last night for dinner. It uses my confetti salad recipe with some added spices for the filling. At this time of year, when fresh tomatoes and peppers are abundant in the garden, it’s the…
I promised to share this French fig salad recipe with you. This recipe originally came from a cookbook by Georgeanne Brennan called Savoring France: Recipes and Reflections on French Cooking. I updated the recipe to remove the dairy and fat. The result is a flavorful, lower calorie dessert that sparkles with the essence of the…
Me again ;). You would love the farms here. We have tons of Mennonites in the area and their gardens are so picture perfect it makes one cry. I wish I could be so prolific in keeping my farm so beautiful but I have to remind myself they have large families that help a lot and their own greenhouses etc.! I don’t have that. I did get a small Mary garden going, not what I wanted but for now it will do. I have a large cement Mary statue in front of my house that came with it. She is too heavy for me to move on my own so I made a ring of bricks around her and planted it. I told hubby I want her to have a place of honor in the future. He is Catholic too but not practicing, one of those forced to go to church by an overbearing mother who had a need to appear perfect. But he lets me do as I please with my quickly growning Catholic pile of stuff that I keep rescuing from yard sales and thrift shops ;). Maybe I’ll start a blog and show some of the stuff I have. Would you come visit?
We just finished up a weeks worth of haying. 25 more acres to cut and bale and 1st crop will be done. Yay!