Homemade Yogurt Without Using a Machine

Anyone can easily make yogurt at home without a yogurt making machine or expensive kitchen gadget. What you will need is milk, an active yogurt culture (a container of Brown Cow plain yogurt will do) and a modest amount of time where you will be home (though not entirely engaged in the process). Basically, you […]

Hello, Perennial Eggplant Tree?

For years I tried to grow eggplant with little to no success. I’ve always been good at growing things, my thumb is green! Eggplants eluded me, but like any stubborn farmer, I didn’t give up too easily. I expressed my eggplant growing woes to my friend Ann Kobsa and she would give me eggplants and […]

What’s Not To Like About Mulberries

If for the rest of my life, I had only one choice of a fruit jam, that jam would be mulberry, hands down. I could forgo even raspberry, strawberry or grape for this delectable little tree berry. Mulberries even want you to pick them with their willowy branches, lack of thorns and tall stature. They […]

Confessions of a Beginning Beekeeper

Recently we switched from the Langstroth hive beekeeping method to the top bar hive. One of the reasons I like the top bar is that it is more in keeping with a natural bee hive. The natural design is best for their survival by helping them fight off predators. You will get more honey with […]

Durian: The Most Powerful Fruit of All

When you think of fruit, you imagine what they are – a colorful orb of juicy sweetness with no power to do much of any thing. In fact, very powerless as you are about to thoroughly consume it. You pick them or buy them, they sit in a bowl on the table and you eat […]