Raising a healthy Jane (or just being a healthy grown-up Jane) comes from good food and proper nutrition. Grab your aprons, I’m on kitchen duty with food to spare and recipes to share! When time allows, here’s where you’ll find one of my how-to-convert-to-an-organic-diet recipes.
Winnie Nielsen says: Home of the fresh breakfast salad along with a perfect egg fresh from the henhouse!
MaryJane, I sent you an email just now with some apple discovery photos! Who would guess such a find in this desert Indian Reservation?
MaryJane says: I did get them but I have yet to really attend to emails. Sorry. I’ve been busy the last couple of days taking animals to the vet for their annual everything. Talk soon!
Winnie Nielsen says: I do believe that a Hallowen pumpkin is in the making!!
Good Morning MaryJane from Albuquerque. Yesterday , on the first leg of the trip , I had a window seat on Southwest Air and 2 1/2 hours of uninterrupted time to read every word of the latest magazine and dreamily look out the window at the quilt patch land, deep blue Gulf of Mexico, and puffy white clouds. It was glorious and inspirational!!
Winnie Nielsen says: Those golden brown grassy hills that envelope your farm are like a balm to behold. I never tire of looking at them! What is everyone picking in the garden?
gingerbkelly says: So what ya got growing, Mary Jane?
MaryJane says: That’s a shot of the WSU organic farm that Karina took while out driving around.
Debra Ann Grauman-Harvill says: Love your magazine and posts
Winnie Nielsen says: Our HenHouse did a zucchini squash recipe card exchange. I have received some incredible creative ways for both sweet and savory dishes. Who knew?
MaryJane, I am loving the Apple Pie Sunday tree getting a possible real I.D. and being all decked out with re ribbons! It has been fun having a “mascot” for our first Chatroom Apple Festival and having the tree be a center stage for the upcoming Apple Pie Sunday in a few weeks. I hope you have been having as much fun with all of this as we have been having!
Winnie Nielsen says: Look at Daizy’s handsome boy!
MaryJane says: Meet Elsa O’Mally, Sally O’Mally’s little girl, traveling soon to her new home in Texas, along with momma.
Winnie Nielsen says: Oops! She reminds me of Daizy’s boy. Hope they love their new home. Thanks for setting me straight !
MaryJane says: As if you need to be set “straight.” Ever.
GingerBee says: God Speed, Elsa and Sally O’Mally. You are going to LOVE your new home! Awwww….she is so ca-ute, I think I’m gonna melt like butter. <3
Winnie Nielsen says: Are these from our Apple Pie Sunday tree? Gorgeous! I took a stab at your request on the Forum for deciding on a possible variety type called Karmine. According to a photo from my book, if these are the same apples, they look more like a Graventein, which ripens August to early September and grown in the Northwest. My book describes this variety as yellowish-white flesh that is tender, fine grained and crisp. The apples are roundish, lopsided, with a yellow skin marked with bright red and copper or orange. Gravensteins are good for pies, sauce making and with it’s spicy and tart taste, a great eating apple.
Maybe the inside of the apple will help determine which variety it could be. The photo on the Forum looks a bit different from these but the photo of the tree with the apples resembles this photo too.
Hmmmmm, what do you think now with this new information?
Winnie Nielsen says: Looks like Labor Day weekend is going to include some corn on the cob at dinner. Yum!
Bonnie ellis says: Almost the staff of life. Yum!
But is it GMO corn, that is the question. Most sweet corn seeds sold in the USA are GMO. Not to put a damper on yourholiday celebration but I’d be interested to know what exact variety this corn is. It looks like field corn to me in the photo.
Carol Hill says: No worries, Lisa – this is a photo of organic, non-GMO sweet corn that we grew here on the farm a couple of years ago (although it is probably a hybrid). And on another note, be on the lookout for a little gift from the farm that will be arriving in your mailbox soon!
Winnie Nielsen says: Delicious looking plums! They make the best pies and jams.
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Look at those beautiful carrots. Carrots are one of my favorite veggies:crisp , sweet, and delicious raw or cooked.
Yum! I have trouble growing good carrots in our heavy clay soil. We’re trying to improve it with compost.
That’s what mine look like too! And they are sooooooo yummy! My hubby makes the best carrot soup too!
I’ve gotta get a carrot cake made too!
CJ
those look so good, wish we could grow them like that. We have heavy clay soil too and even with compost ours don’t look that good.