Home Improvement, Sustainability, and Organic Gardening in Progress
What do you do when your only child goes off to college? You buy an old farmstead in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, of course!
Rehabbing a farmhouse, gardening, and dabbling with sustainability is keeping us busy. Share our adventures through our writings and photos of the work in progress!
Herbs and Flowers for Drying Our Calendula flowers are in full bloom. Time to pick a few, dry them, and add to the previously started batch of infused oil. (Prior to putting the flowers in oil, they need to be dried so as to avoid any mold issues...) Calendula flowers when infused with oil can be used on your skin to heal wounds and bruises. Most people I've seen online use olive oil for infusing - but I had some partial bottles of pumpkin seed oil and some liquid coconut
Raspberry Jam In the Pot and On the Stove We were starting to have frozen raspberries coming out of our ears from this year's harvest to date. When I say raspberries, I mean a combination of our garden variety raspberries (the kind you get in the store) and our wild black cap's. Time to make our annual raspberry jam. And when it comes to raspberry jam, I make my version (seeds and all) and Ed makes his version (seeds strained out). We still have canned raspberry sauce from
