Saturday, March 27, 2010


I seriously doubt it could look much SPRINGIER than this!! About the only thing still with fat buds are the dogwood. And only about 1/10th of the daffodils are blooming!

Easter week should be gorgeous - and we still have some rooms available.

I am headed today to Hilltop Berry Farm & Winery for some honey Mead!! Hopefully will get to stop at Basic Necessities for lunch, and if there is time I will call my friend Gail at Caromont for some of her amazing farmer's goat cheese - If not today, then for sure next weekend! Then calls to neighbors for lamb for next week's dinners, and our Easter dinner also - I am thinking about a braised or roasted butterflied leg of lamb, minted wheatberry salad, asparagus - something full of herbs and the fresh flavors of spring.

Plans are underway for our May Herb Festival - so many of our favourite herb growers are doing so well with their commercial sales, they aren't doing festivals anymore!! We couldn't be happier for them, but it also makes us want to get our greenhouse installed as soon as possible so WE can start our herb growing...we have a great location for a small shop, and if I ever get the bakery off the ground, the two things would work well together. Plus our guests would have something really nice and lasting to take home with them to remember us. Herbes de Provence anyone??

Happy spring!

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

http://chofoodhub.blogspot.com/2010/03/plant-row-for-hungry-details-emerge.html

LOVE these photos and this blog! Gets me in the mood to really get my hands dirty.

Which is exactly what I'll be doing tomorrow - our veggie garden needs turning this year, and hopefully I will be getting more seeds in the ground by this weekend...and then I am looking for a good place for a couple of raised beds - strictly for greens and root veggies. Pumpkins/butternut/hubbard squash? I don't know quite where to put them - maybe outside the hen pens...and what grows really well under Black Walnut trees? Not veggies of course, too shady - I am looking for some low shrubs or perennials? Ideas?