“Della, are you up to no good in the shed?” “Yes Mama.”  

  “Ohh…” It’s the sound of poorly concealed shock and awe we sometimes get when I quote our eggs at $3.00/dozen. But here’s the things, we’re not trying to bring you the best price on eggs, we’re trying to bring the best value, and the highest quality. In order to achieve that goal our chickens…

One of the things Kentucky does best is roses.  The edges of our forest are lined with wild roses climbing up into the lower branches of the trees, and our garden roses flourish year after year.  Our wild rose jelly gives you a bit of southern summer to keep all year long. It has a…

For today’s edition of “Can I Actually Make My Family Eat This Stuff?” we’re going to try yellow dock. There are several different kinds, curly dock, broad leaf dock…but we mostly call it all yellow dock, or just dock. Like poke, it’s a little bit poisonous too, so you cook it in much the same…

We had an abundant harvest yesterday.  We ended up with two cups of wild rose petals, two cups of mint, half a pound of dock leaves, two pounds of poke, four pounds of plantain leaves, and 26 eggs.  All gathered up less time than an afternoon nap for the children. The rose petals and mint…