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The Last Week–We Hope

Jun 21st, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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 This is the week we plan to finish all the schoolwork, Lord willing.  The marks and yearly summaries may have to wait until next week, though. We also need to do a lot of garden planting—all the warm-soil crops, such as squashes; and of course, there’s a lot of weeding to do.  The raspberries are […]

Tomatoes

Nov 12th, 2009
by Annie Kate.
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  Yesterday we finished the last fresh tomatoes of this year’s crop, chopped fine in a pot of garlicky chicken soup.  We’re all a bit under the weather, and that chicken soup was wonderful!    All the rest of the tomatoes, and there weren’t that many this year, are either frozen or made up into […]

Barbequed Zucchini and Zucchini Chips

Aug 18th, 2009
by Annie Kate.
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  Now that zucchini season is upon us, here are two of our favourite recipes, an old family favourite and one we first tried yesterday.  They are both so easy and so delicious.  In fact the first one we have used for quick company meals.   Barbequed Zucchini Slice a large zucchini into 1 cm […]

Strawberry Picking: How Do They Grow Such Huge Berries?

Jul 7th, 2009
by Annie Kate.
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  We used to have a large strawberry garden, but it was continually over run by weeds so we gave it to our chickens.  Two of the children-our 6yo and our 8yo- transplanted many of the plants to a new, smaller location and have been caring for them.  Even after the trauma of being transplanted, […]

Planting Day, Finally!

Jun 20th, 2009
by Annie Kate.
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  Today we planted our cucumbers, summer squashes, hot pepper seedlings, and the entire 1000 square foot squash and pumpkin garden.  Finally!  Ten days ago we wanted to do this, but it was still too cold.  Sigh.      So, right after breakfast, one child measured out the squash garden, marked the rows, and dug […]

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