Cumberland Falls Farm

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…

We’re actually coming near the end of the season, but I’ve been dragging it out a bit which adds some excitement to our lives because poke becomes poisonous when it gets too big. How big is too big?  It’s really a matter of personal opinion.  Some people only eat the first sprouts before they have…

Growing up, my aunt and uncle had the best lives in the world, because they lived on a farm. They had a creek, they had a barn full of stuff, they even had a pear tree, but exceeding all else, they had goats. Every time we visited I said to myself “when I grow up,…

Now that we have our lavender jelly, I felt challenged to prove that it can be more than just a beautiful spread for biscuits (good marketing and all). So I put it on chicken, and my very polite and family didn’t say anything snide about it and gave it a try. Everyone agrees, it is…

We’ve got a new batch of plantain salve started. Typically each batch of plantain leaves will infuse in their oil for a year before being turned into salve. Thanks to the free range chickens, our land produces exceptional plantain. To keep the oil from spoiling with the extra water content in the leaves they are…

People want to know what the secret is to my hydrangeas. How do I get them to bloom so early? What’s more impressive is that mine bloom all winter long. The secret is simple, blue and pink spray paint. As far as the hydrangea knows, summer never ends.