Harvest Time, Freezer Camp, On Permanent Holiday, the One Bad Day; whatever you like to call the end of the food security experiments of raising chickens for meat is always an interesting day. The first year, we did it ourselves (with gracious and more experienced friends to help) because y’know, if you can and youContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: White Bean Chicken Chili”
Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson
Tuesday Happens
We feel the changes in the weather in a subtle manner around here. Not that the temperatures haven’t dropped (rather drastically), they have – but the humidity has not, so it isn’t more pleasant, yet. But my tomato plants are still green and standing (well – they are weighed a bit down with all theirContinue reading “Tuesday Happens”
Monday’s Mabon Musing
Embrace this time the change of light, with shorter days and longer nights.The wheel has turned, the time will change,the darker side of the earth remains.There is magick in the lunar light, with intuition at its height.The alchemy of Mother Earth, from birth to death, will come rebirth. Rejoice in this season, may it fillContinue reading “Monday’s Mabon Musing”
Friday in Pictures: End of Summer Garden Flowers
let the images tell you their story
Duendesday: Summer’s End
{life with a curious and crazy 11 yr old} So, a couple of weeks ago we managed to squeeze a camping trip into our crazy schedule which was good for all of us, even though we left a little early due to the rain, we got to meet up with a solid bunch of lovelyContinue reading “Duendesday: Summer’s End”
Tuesday Happens
We used to have this lovely large patch of Common Milkweed in the upper back field – I based an entire garden around it, separating it into large wedges with picket fencing (which my marvelous man made out of pallets) and dreaming of a classic or at least interesting sundial in the center. Something happenedContinue reading “Tuesday Happens”
Tuesday on the Homestead
There is a moment when our cultivation feels positive – a flush of growth – flowers, beans, herbs, and nightshades: tomatoes, tomatillos, husk cherries, wonderberries, peppers, eggplants (no potatoes this year, can you believe it? I love growing potatoes but couldn’t do it this year), grapes, blackberries, and apples. Despite the weather (so dry inContinue reading “Tuesday on the Homestead”
Musing on a Monday
The Apple Orchard Come let us watch the sun go downand walk in twilight through the orchard’s green.Does it not seem as if we had for longcollected, saved and harbored within usold memories? To find releases and seeknew hopes, remembering half-forgotten joys,mingled with darkness coming from within,as we randomly voice our thoughts aloudwandering beneath theseContinue reading “Musing on a Monday”
Duendesday: the Crazies
{life with a curious and crazy 11 yr old} This kid is cray cray. She’s losing teeth all over the place (naturally, just seems all the time!), she’s foraging, gardening, climbing, dancing, swinging on the swing, making paper airplanes, making up games (like Belly Target – and yes, she wrote the numbers backwards because sheContinue reading “Duendesday: the Crazies”
Tuesday 2 Do & Big Happenings
Do you want the little news first or the big news? Alright, the latter it is – Big News: we are revamping our business acumen and to do so, we need to take a break…likely until October. I know. Big. That’s a big chunk of free floating Rollson’s with no income or safety in anyContinue reading “Tuesday 2 Do & Big Happenings”
