Category Archives: Happenings

Sometimes things just don’t work out as planned and it’s how you respond or recover from disappointment or change. We won’t even get into how the weather has been messing with our schedule and ability to function. We were surprised this week by one endeavor we thought we had down — canning applesauce. It’s aContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Minor Failures”

The chill is in the air. The bee balm seed heads sway with frost, the leaves on the peach trees are finally giving up, the witch hazel has had her last bloom for the season. We’ve shucked the beans (such glorious beans — Doloff, Purple Podded Pole, and True Red Cranberry Pole Beans), dried Calendula,Continue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Catching up”

Samhain is generally a time of renewal, of connecting with our ancestors for strength and knowledge in the ‘waking world’. But this waking world is asleep, adrift. It is hard today to contemplate the connection of all things (in time, space, ecology…) but the new chill helps to pull our thoughts and people close. MyContinue reading “Happenings — Not Happenings”

Ok, well — it was officially Autumn on September 22nd this year, but the weather shift has made it feel real. Last week folks were wearing shorts for our 80 degree surprise but this week, it’s sweaters and hats. The mornings are chilly. We are due for the first frost next week and though IContinue reading “Officially Autumnal Tuesday Happenings”

The time has come, for us, to assess the waning vegetable garden and start putting it to bed. We should decide to pull all the failing (and flailing) tomato plants give up the last of the cherry tomatoes, the hot peppers (the plants look great but are no longer blooming), the bed of eggplants (whichContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings (mostly) on the Homestead”

Sometimes that should be on the 2-Do List: just breathe.

We started out as Rock Bottom Homestead (Rock Bottom Farm was not here then, though they seem lovely and do pigs, etc., and we’ve backed away from using our homestead name for business because they are doing well with it…) and were excited to recuperate an old mostly-volunteer orchard. Our property told us it wantedContinue reading “Tuesday is Happening!: Rock Bottom”