What’s Happening? Seedlings are still on sale – available for your gardens: melons, Summer and Winter squashes, tomato seedlings are up, peppers, calendula, borage, cukes, marigolds but it’s official, the early cabbages bit the dust. Oh well, I’ll try again for succession cabbages. New Summer Syrups – Lilac and Honeysuckle, and they are both certainlyContinue reading “Tuesday on the Homestead”
Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson
Monday’s Muse
Before Summer Rain ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Suddenly, from all the green around you, something-you don’t know what-has disappeared; you feel it creeping closer to the window, in total silence. From the nearby wood you hear the urgent whistling of a plover, reminding you of someone’s Saint Jerome: so much solitude and passion come fromContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”
Recipe Thursday: Picnic!
Putting up was definitely a thing when I was little. Bushels of tomatoes became canned tomatoes and tomato sauce (we weren’t sophisticated enough to eat salsa or make pizza sauce – pizza, in fact, was really something we just had at school, in squares, with just cheese. We did not have pizza places and didContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Picnic!”
Duendesday
{a day to check in with a 9 yr old’s doings} Any good birthday ideas? She’s feeling the pinch – she wants this year to be a big year (aren’t they all? but yes, 10, though not a cycle-year, is still a big year) and because she can’t have a party we’re hoping to makeContinue reading “Duendesday”
Happenings: Seedling Sale!!
This Friday and Saturday (June 5 and 6, roughly 10am – 6pm) at the Homestead we are setting out seedlings for sale. It can be a no contact- country drive – side of the road sale – for you. Or you can let us know you are coming and we can set aside some goodies.Continue reading “Happenings: Seedling Sale!!”
Monday Musings
Respiration BY JAMAAL MAY A lot of it lives in the trachea, you know. But not so much that you won’t need more muscle: the diaphragm, a fist clenching at the bottom. Inhale. So many of us are breathless, you know, like me kneeling to collect the pottery shards of a house plant my elbowContinue reading “Monday Musings”
Special Seedling Edition, #2!
More seedlings are out and about! Some took off like crazy, others are still getting their groove on but many are ready. You should be getting ready at this point to get these babies in your windows, coldframes, greenhouses and gardens (I’m running out of room – ha!). Contact us directly: rockbottommaine@gmail.com to be addedContinue reading “Special Seedling Edition, #2!”
Recipe Thursday: Rhabarberkuchen
Translated: Rhubarb Cake!! But it’s more exciting if you take it into consideration of the German ‘kuchen’ time, which is essentially high tea or afternoon cake and coffee. Many years ago now, my lovely friend Vanessa took me as her date to a wedding in Germany for her International Exchange friend that she met inContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Rhabarberkuchen”
Duendesday
{a day to check in with a 9 yr old’s doings} Hot lazy days right now, for an almost 10-year-old. Sure, she has a list of chores she likes shirk – like watering plants, hanging (or taking down) the laundry on the line, the dishwasher, the cat box…but they all get done eventually. But theContinue reading “Duendesday”
It’s Tuesday, right?
My schedule is a bit off this week. I keep missing or losing some days in there somewhere. It is lush and green up here right now. There have been some apple blossoms (it’s an off year, so sparingly on the old trees and a few of the youngbloods are trying out their petal power).Continue reading “It’s Tuesday, right?”
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