Strawberry Rhubarb Cream Pie Strawberry rhubarb pie is the perfect spring and early summer pie. It’s perfect because it tastes so good, but also because the strawberries and rhubarb can come right from the garden, as fresh as it gets! We are still a little early for strawberries here in Michigan at the end of…
Category: local food
Acorn Flour Carrot Apple Raisin Coffee Cake: Another acorn flour recipe to try out
Baking coffee cake on a sunny morning I can’t believe that May has had such consistently cold and wet weather. But, when the house is cold in the morning, I like to warm it up by turning on the oven to bake something. Sometimes I bake a fruit crisp or muffins, or an egg casserole….
Maple Syrup Season: Our Favorite Maple Syrup Recipes
Maple Syrup Season Last years maple syrup production was a rollercoaster. The first sap flow started in February, and it stopped and started multiple times due to the variable weather. In mid-April, some of the taps were frozen. Near the end of April the maple leaf buds started to swell and the season was finally…
Cherry pie for the holiday season: Michigan cherries, tart and sweet with a few varieties to choose from
Michigan cherries Midsummer in Northern Michigan; it was the last day for cherry picking so we picked as many types of cherries that we could at a local cherry farm. We actually came home with about 200 pounds of cherries for a very good price. Yikes, what do you do with 200 pounds of cherries?You…
Bush cherries and Cherry trees: Ripening fruit
The cherries are getting ripe! As we get close to the time for the Traverse City Cherry festival, we have been checking all the cherry trees for ripe fruits. There have been a few ripe cherries each day and several more on the way. Our tree cherries are getting ripe, but so are the bush…
Baby apples!
Scarlet surprise Prarie spy Golden delicious Baby apples Scarlet surpise, Prarie spy, and Golden delicious apples are three of our apple trees in the orchard that are starting to produce this year! The first 2 varieties are not so easy to find at the store. And Golden delicious apples are delicious, in applesauce especially. I…
Radish mini challenge: #1 The Cincinnati radish
In the effort to increase diversity, one mini challenge is to pick different varieties of the vegetables that we eat all the time. So, we have the Radish mini challenge. Our first radish of the challenge: the cincinnati radish. It is a red icicle type radish, and we are going to use it in salad….
Wild harvested greens for the dinner plate
Can you identify the greens in my dinner? We were out of veggies, and not going to the store until next morning, so my husband came back with some wild harvested greens for the dinner plate. When we do a wild harvest my husband gravitates usually toward tree leaves and bitter greens. Often there will…
Trail food: Our hiking and backpacking harvest
Photos of our Trail food.
Planting in the Rain: Red Welsh Bunching Onions and Utah Tall Celery
Good morning spring! I love warm spring rain, so this morning I decided to plant one of my garden beds in the rain. The Red Welsh Bunching Onions that have been growing in my front window since February were begging to be planted, and my Utah Tall Celery was ready for planting too. So, while…
Community Supported Agriculture
Signing up for the CSA Well we just signed up for a summer of fresh local farm products including; vegetables, fruits, meats, eggs honey, syrup, soap and maybe even milk. I can hardly wait for June! We signed a contract with a local farm and paid the fee. In return we receive a weekly selection…
Morels while mowing
A little gift from the effort of mowing the lawn. These morels, might look a normal size in the picture but they were actually as big as a hand. (See the spoon for reference.)