fruit – Grow Your Bliss

Persimmon Hoshigaki

Hoshigaki persimmons in the morning sun. So beautiful! I had to paint a still life of one yesterday, could not resist. That color, that shape! In case you’re not familiar, hoshigaki is a traditional method for preserving fruit. This represents probably the most potential for utilizing the harvest, in our experience with growing persimmons, so…

December 7, 2020

Cynthia R-T

Food & Drink

autumn, food, fruit, harvest, persimmons, preserving, traditional methods

Pears and 9 DIY Jams to Make Now

Perfect timing: Nine do it yourself jams to make now… So many times we have had the inspiration, gone and forgotten the fruit, come home and not had a concrete plan. Which is just awful when you have 50 pounds of ripe Santa Clara plums on your kitchen counter. We are in discussions as to…

August 17, 2014

Cynthia R-T

Food & Drink

canning, food, fruit, Garden, in season, local, pear, preserve

The Garden of the Future: a place for the slow-growing edible plants

There was never a good idea for part of the garden that we call “the Garden of the Future”. Finally, the slower growing edibles have a place of their own!

March 30, 2014

Cynthia R-T

Garden

container, edible, fruit, Garden, grow bag, new, plant, seed, vine