After many months {possibly years} of writing, editing, cooking, editing again and finally off to the printer- we are so excited to annouce that the Homestead Blessings Cookbook is now available at our websitewww.homestead-blessings.com !!! Yeah!!!! Full of lots of pictures from the homestead kitchen and garden, hand sketched drawings by Mama, stories and tips from the farm and over 150 recipes that are easy, fun and centered around the home and farm. Recipes for homemade breads, and Lemon Meringue Pie... and also recipes for canning pickles, relishes and produce right from the garden! So gather 'round in the kitchen and open up the Homestead Blessings Cookbook to try new recipes and have some good 'ole fashioned family fun! We hope this book will be a blessing to you and your homestead!
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Howdy Y'all!! It has been a while since we have blogged because summertime on the farm brings very busy times!:) Our garden looks more like a jungle now and feels like one too with humidity and all, but somewhere in that jungle we find broccoli, cabbage, onions, peas. Today we canned a few quarts of cream of broccoli soup. That will be so wonderful in the winter when broccoli is scarce. Our cherry tree is giving us some cherries now and Hannah baked a most delicious cherry cobbler last Sunday for dinner. Yum! We also have lots of beautiful tall weeds that we like to pull up and throw back onto the compost pile. It is wonderful "green food" for the garden. We planted cotton for the first time and it is coming up so well!! We are excited. Hope to use for pillow and quilts this winter. Speaking of quilts, we are blessed to announce that the 10th in the Homestead Blessings series, "The Art of Quilting" is now available on our website! We are also, for the month of June, giving away our CD, "Farther Along" with every order of the 3 pack, 6 pack or 9 pack of the Homestead Blessings series, but only at www.homestead-blessings.com. These pictures are from a couple weeks ago and things are already starting look different now. We hope to talk to y'all again soon. Thank you for all the kind words of encouragement! Enjoy your gardening and homesteading wherever you may be!!! Blessings, The West Ladies Mama gathering from the garden. Simple springtime beauties. View from the back porch. Out of railroad ties and old pots, life springs forth! Calendula and Kohlrabi. Broccoli harvest. Calendula flower. Onion bed. Our little friend makes fresh mint tea. Squeeze the juice from the leaves... And pour it up! To see more on how to make fresh delicious mint tea go Here and check out "The Art of Herbs" in the Homestead Blessings DVD series.
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Sunny days = running sap from the giving maples! Yeah! We are grwoing cotton this year so now you can call us " cotton pickin' sap suckers"! Ha Ha ! The wood cook stove is full of large kettles with wonderful "sweet water"- almost maple syrup! Early this moring the house was very warm with smells of maple syrup and freshly baked bread. Now I'm getting "purdy" excited about planting and all. I started flats of broccoli and cabbage about 2 weeks ago in our kind nieghbors green house. Last night I planted 2 flats of seeds, parsley and edible flowers, yeah! Went outside this morning to look over large garden area, gonna have it plowed with a team of Percherons. Hope to get ya'll some pictures of that! Hope to plant some snowe peas tommorrow, clean up, plan and pittle in the raised beds and all! Right now they look pretty bare. Found some old gourds up in the hayloft, we'll use those for Martin bird houses- can't wait! Hope you can get outside and have fun too! (P.S. My fingernails are dirty. That means it's nearing spring, which is great but... to keep that dirt thing from happening, you can scrape your fingernails acroos a bar of soap- then after you are done working in the garden just wash up! You'll have more soap than dirt!) Blessings to your Homestead! Vicki for the West Family Here are the promised pictures! Wow, are we busy today! The sap has been running like crazy and so we have 150 gallons of sap to cook down today! There are 3 different fires we have going right now so we can boil down all the sap. Thank the Lord for this wonderful "run", hopefully we'll have enough to keep us in sweets till next year! :) Well, I better quit this rambling and get back to the sap. Y'all enjoy the pictures!
Blessings, Cecilia for the West Family Well we have been busy making bread, sewing dolls, cooking maple syrup and getting ready for spring. The air has warmed up quite a bit outside and the spring birds are singing. Speaking of birds, I have had fun taking pictures of robins, chickens and our goats. The goats love to nibble on my apron when I'm taking their picture. They don't hold still either, just jump around and such. :)
We have been working on the cookbook, trying out new dishes and deserts, we'll all have to do a lot of juicing after this!! Hah, hah! Hopefully we'll have some more pictures up soon . Until then... Blessings, Vicki for the West Family |
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