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Land of Fruits and Nuts – Day 9 – What the heck am I doing and cookbook porn 11 Jun 2013 | 08:51 am
Okay, so today I woke up and wondered what the heck am I doing with 6 acres of land covered with fruit trees and vegetables and other stuff. How am I going to do something with the bounty? The avocado...
Land of Fruits and Nuts – Day 8 – Sweet Marmalade 4 Jun 2013 | 10:39 pm
I’m still trying to use the oranges that are hanging on – the end of the season’s crop. I’ve got fresh blooms and new fruit starting, but we haven’t harvested all of this year’s crop. Mostly because i...
Land of Fruits & Nuts – Day 7 – Taking a Canning Class and More 4 Jun 2013 | 09:50 am
Before I get too far along in my adventure here at the Land of Fruits and Nuts, I wanted to share information about a class I took at the Institute of Domestic Technology, rediscovering the future of ...
Land of Fruits and Nuts – Day 6 – Loquat Jelly 24 May 2013 | 07:27 am
As I explained in my prior post, I had tons of loquats and wanted to use them for something, anything really. I stumbled across a recipe for loquat jelly, and was determined to make it. The day before...
Land of Fruits and Nuts – Preserving the Harvest – Day 5 – Loquats & Loquat Jelly 18 May 2013 | 01:44 am
It is May 6, 2013, and loquat trees hang heavy with fruit in Southern California. Driving home from picking up my kids from after school care, we pass 6 or 7 trees in our relatively short drive just c...
Land of Fruits and Nuts – Preserving the Harvest – Day 3 – Elder 17 May 2013 | 01:31 am
So, my third day of preserving the harvest at the Land of Fruits and Nuts found me too exhausted to think of canning. For the record, for the past two days, I’d been canning after the kiddos went to s...
Land of Fruits and Nuts – Joining Team ENERGY STAR 15 May 2013 | 11:11 pm
So, in the Land of Fruits and Nuts, we have to remodel the home. “Have to” is an understatement – the home’s major systems are failing – we’ve had the sewer pipe burst underneath the house, the water ...
Land of Fruits and Nuts – Preserving the Harvest – Day 2 – Orange & Whiskey Marmalade 15 May 2013 | 07:52 am
So, having successfully made and canned strawberry jam (see my blog post on Day 1), I was ready to move on and try something to preserve the actual harvest. And boy do we have oranges. There are many ...
Land of Fruits and Nuts – Preserving the Harvest – Day 1 – Strawberry Jam 14 May 2013 | 08:37 am
Well, we’ve finally reached the beginning of the harvest so to speak here at the aptly named Land of Fruits and Nuts. Yep, we’ve named the “farm” the Land of Fruits and Nuts . . . we actually went thr...
Wild Edibles – Foraging for Dinner 16 Apr 2013 | 06:08 am
So the other night I didn’t have any veggies or greens to add to our dinner. I had fruit and I had potatoes, but nothing green and bright. So I did a quick foraging expedition in our backyard – choosi...
