Various berries harvested late July at home in the Edible Garden and in the Væres Venner Community Garden. More information in the picture captions. These were either eaten […]
Birds
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There’s always one: blue tit taking a shower!
It was close to 30C and I was working outside this afternoon and decided that my saskatoons (Amelanchier) could do with a bit of water. The hose was […]
Berries / Birds
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Birds love saskatoons too…
The Saskatoons (Amelanchier alnifolia “Thiessen”) ripened early this year and I was too late netting them against the birds….a young fieldfare (gråtrost) was eating the berries yesterday morning, […]
Drying / Food / Fruit
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First load of wood dried apples
My first (of many) loads of apples drying over the wood stove! I’m 100% self-sufficient in fruit and never buy bananas, oranges etc. and don’t use a freezer. […]
Berries
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Drying Worcesterberries and Saskatoons
There’s been an almost complete failure of apples and plums this year (this has never happened before in my 35 years here). I can’t possibly start buying fruit […]