NowHere Farms

  The garden is resting during the heat and the dry of summer. Even my mint died!  Soon Cletus will get out there with his trusty tiller and start working the areas which look like this It hurts to show you what a weedy mess it is right now!   And turning them into areas that look like this! Fall planting will hopefully include tomatoes (it’s nice having a LATE frost!) (eat your heart out, Minnesota!), some lettuce, and maybe some potatoes.   And of course the peppers will continue until frost, at which point the porch will (hopefully be plastic covered and) become a winter greenhouse! Scotch Bonnets! Realistic or not, I have visions of sitting in my winter greenhouse sipping tea and enjoying a good book or some crafting when the temps drop down to a brutally cold 49 (Go ahead and laugh, Minnesota!). The truth is we are more likely to spend our time here enjoying this.  I'll take it! Unedited picture showing a sunspot  

 Finding joy and peace in the garden Yes, we have matching Superman shirts My clothesline "helper" The tarragon survived!           So did the basil! (and of course the rosemary)   The dill did not but I had a really good harvest before it died   The bananas are thriving LOQUATS!!! :) Yes, Virginia, there are olives this year!   Happy Monday!

  In Alabama, we are required to be certified by the state prior to selling home-processed food goods.   This means if we want to make hot pepper jelly    Apocalypse Reaper Plant, Carolina Reaper Plant, and Ghost Pepper Jelly or any other jam, jelly, relish, pickles, dried herbs, etc. for sale (and we do!), we must every 3 years take either a food safety class at the Cooperative Extension office, or a ServSafe food-handler course on-line.   I have taken the food handler course, but when I went to the local health department to get more information about registering to sell my goods, I was strongly encouraged to take the class the Extension offers.   Am I ever glad I did that! Tuesday morning I got up, took care of the animals, started a load of laundry, loaded up, and headed out.   I usually enjoy being in the car but the trip to The City is my least favorite trip of all (I’m not big on tunnels under a bay).   After a brief argument with Mr...

  And after all this…rest!   Whether that be the bed with a cozy quilt and your best pillow,   and maybe a cat.  Or two. time sitting beside a mountain creek and maybe even dabbling your toes in the water,   or on the beach watching the sparkles in the waves:   take time to rest, enjoy, and be thankful.   This is my Father’s world, And to my listening ears All nature sings, and round me rings The music of the spheres. This is my Father’s world: I rest me in the thought Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas – His hand the wonders wrought.   This is my Father’s world: The birds their carols raise, The morning light, the lily white, Declare their Maker’s praise. This is my Father’s world: He shines in all that’s fair; In the rustling grass I hear Him pass, He speaks to me everywhere.   This is my Father’s world: O let me never forget That though the wrong seems oft so strong, ...