Farm Life in Maine and New Hampshire
The idea and practice of spring detox is a traditional time to cleanse the body after a cold, sedentary winter. Despite many recent trendy abuses of the word "detox", it is a centuries old practice that doesn't involve any fad diets or starvation rituals. It was a time of reintroducing greens into the diet after months of eating primarily meats and grains. Ages ago in Scotland, … [Read more...]
You wander out to the garden to pick some fresh tomatoes. You find small black droppings on the leaves of your tomato plant. The leaves are gone, but the stem remains. Looks like you probably have tomato worms. Tomato worms feast on the leaves of your tomato plants, which will lead to the plant dying. The tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata) is a large caterpillar that … [Read more...]
Eating to Live Healthy When you hear someone say the word diet, you automatically think they are trying to lose weight. In order to lose weight and keep it off forever, a diet should simply be what you are eating. di·et (dÄ«-it) Noun: The kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats. Using the word diet as the way one should be eating is the … [Read more...]
Natural pectin comes from the skin of apples. Crap apples contain a higher amount than store bought apples. Other fruits such as quince, citrus fruits and blackberries, also contain a natural pectin. When cooked out, you can freeze it for later use in pies, puddings and even canning. What You Will Need 2 pounds of sliced apples (one pound if using crab apples. Crab apples are … [Read more...]
If your house is like ours, right about now, you are loaded with cucumbers from the garden. What shall you do? While pickles are wonderful, I am about pickled out right now. I've made dill, spicy dill, and bread and butter pickles. Jars and jars of them, to be exact. I've made cucumber salad, cucumber salad dressing, and anything I else I cold think of. I wanted something … [Read more...]
A Bad Rap For A Great Healing Herb Goldenrod has gotten a bad reputation over the years for causing allergies, and hay fever, however, it has been shown that it's pollen does not go airborne. Rather, it is pollinated by bees and other pollinating insects. It seems that ragweed, which blooms at the same time of year is actually the culprit for those allergies. Ragweed has … [Read more...]
Yogurt cheese is delicious and simple to make. Even the kids can do it. You can make it a savory cheese for chips and dips, or a sweet cheese for dessert toppings or to spread on toast and muffins. It's up to you. Below is a pictorial step by step on how to make Yogurt Cheese followed by Yogurt Cheese Recipes. Step One Get out all your equipment. You'll need one at least … [Read more...]
Oh, No, It's Raining. Again...What Are You Going To Do All Day? 10 Thing To Do With Kids That Develop Their Imagination The world is mad about electronic gadgets. Television, computers, iPods, iPads, Smart Phones, and Kindles have taken over people's lives. They can't live without them, and don't remember life when they didn't exist. It seems they even have electronics … [Read more...]
Farming was deep in my roots on both sides of my family. “It'll be easyâ€, I thought. “You just plant some seeds, and watch them grow.†Was I in for a big surprise. No one ever told me about bugs, and pests, and plant diseases. No one ever told me about the weeds, and how weeding will cause you to go gray before your time. Oh, and the animals. Other than a dog, I had … [Read more...]
Origins of Pumpkin Pumpkin is native to North America, and is a gourd-like squash. It is from the cucurbitaceae family of plants. The word itself comes from the Greek word pepon, which means large melon. In France the word was adapted into pompon, which then the British changed to pumpion. The early American colonists later changed it to pumpkin. Pumpkin seeds dating back … [Read more...]
