I try hard to maintain a waste free kitchen. I save all scraps from veggies. You can use the butts of celery, carrots, potatoes, beets, onions and garlic, ( as well as the skins) broccoil, squash anything really. I have a tub in the freezer that I use to store until I get enough to make a stock. I cut the pieces so they will… Read More »Making veggie stock from kitchen scraps
St John’s Wort or the greek Hypericum Perforayum which means “Over a spirit”. Other common names are Goatweed, Klamath Weed, Tipton’s Weed and Rosin Rose. It is named after John the Baptist as it is harvested at midsummer on his Birthday. There are many mentions of the sun and the Solstic to St John’s Wort. As I look at and live with and learn to… Read More »Saint John’s Wort plant
We have a cherry tree here on Butterfly Hill. It was gangly and had not been pruned in many years. So there were not many cherries at all. This year I decided to try and save some of the cherries for us. The birds get most of them. Flash tape was put on the lower branches we could reach. I knew that I would not… Read More »The 1st Cherry Harvest
As I watched the Caterpillars grow, I had no idea the journey they would take me on…. Early on in our lockdown, my Birthday arrived. I got a email that a package was at my P. O. So I masked up and picked up the present that magically arrived on my actual birthday! It was a set to raise Caterpillars to Butterflies that my sister… Read More »“Be brave like the Caterpillar, so you can Fly like the Butterfly “
This is an awesome video from PBS that allows us to see a Butterfly swarm from the inside. It reminds me of when I was very small. We lived in Monterey and in our back yard we had a grove of eucalyptus trees. My mom and my aunt would take us out as the butterflies were waking. Soon they would start to flap their wings… Read More »A Butterfly Swarm
In this Facebook video I go over the current seed shortage and quick and easy kitchen hacks to get growing now! Come get inspired with our fun community
