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Mountain Harvest Basket
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This Harvest Basket is a collection from mountain rural life, the everyday wonders of nature and the forest, my vegetable & herb gardens, fruit & nut trees, chickens, kitty cats & my loving partners. My endeavor to live a natural, healthy and peaceful life on my 3 acres in the beautiful Sierra Nevada foothills also includes home cooking, baking, canning & crafts. Join me on my journey of learning and growing each day. I will share my Mountain Harvest with you.
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Halloween Jack-o-Lanterns
Scary Toothy Grin in the darkNot So Scary in the LightThis is just a quick post to show off our pumpkin carving talents to make this year's Jack-o-Lanterns for Halloween.First off, we went out and bought field pumpkins because we only grew sweet pie ...
Curious Cat
Louie Watching TVEarly this past summer I noticed a stray cat hanging around my place. It's not unusual to see visiting kitties out here in the country, some belong to neighbors, some are strays looking for a handout. This cat kept his distance, but ...
Gala Apple Harvest
Beautiful Gala ApplesI have several apple trees. One of my apple trees is a "triple graft" that grows 3 different kinds of apples on one main rootstock. This is nice because we only had to dig one hole to plant this tree, but we get a variety of appl...
Bountiful Basil
Big Basket o' BasilSince we were due for our first big winter rainstorm this morning, I decided yesterday that I'd better harvest as much of my remaining sweet basil as I could before the heavy rains hit. I didn't want the heavy rains and wind to dam...
Small Peach Harvest
Juicy Sweet Elberta PeachesAs with all of my fruit harvests this summer, my peach harvest was on the small side. My tiny Elberta peach tree is 9 years old, but still only gives me a few peaches each year. This year she grew 12 beautiful juicy peaches...

