Black currant, how do I love thee?

Last year I stuck a couple of black currant bushes into the very edge of the ravine, at the back of my herb garden, next to the rhubarb. Planting anything here is challenging because the properties that line the ravine are built on landfill, and it’s pretty tough to dig a hole without having to…

Summertime and the weather is…?

Holy smokes. It’s been well over a month since I last posted. Bad Sarah. Boo. Sorry. We got our deck put in late June and then I just got down to enjoying summer. We’ve been on the road virtually every weekend since mid-June! I’m very excited that after a very long wait, our landscaping has…

Gone fishin’

Well I’m officially on three weeks vacation and after a couple days at the cottage and this afternoon and evening at the farm, I just might be starting to relax. I couldn’t sit still at the cottage,thinking about all I need to do before we get on a plane on Wednesday but now that the…

Finally some rain

Over the last week we’ve finally had a decent dose of rain. It’s not enough — we need a lot more — but I won’t complain. Today was a very misty one, and everything is pleasantly coated with little drops of dew. It’s incredibly sticky outside now though, because while we’ve gotten some rain, the…

Positively pickled

I think my house smelled like dill pickles for a week after this. It started with garlic dills and dilly beans. And then I bought more cucumbers for making relish. But I had way, way too many. So they became sliced garlic dills, with some added chili to kick them up a notch. I made…

Poppy love

I enjoyed a totally blissful weekend at the farm, so much so I just did not want to come back here to this tense, cop-ified city of mine. The G20 is right around the corner and I work in what is anticipated to be a major hot spot for protesters. Today I could feel serious…