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I don't grow vervain, but it grows (wild) on my property. Never used it medicinally though.

I just make a cream sauce of milk, cream, and melted butter with flour added as a thickener (use an egg beater to blend these while it is heating) and add salt and lots of black pepper. Then combine with cooked corn scraped from the cobs with a sharp knife.

I've heard there are farmers markets where vendors sell what they have personally grown, sewn, baked, or otherwise created, and then there are farmers markets where vendors buy wares and then sell them at a mark-up price. The one I frequent is the first variety, and I love it. This market...

I can tell the difference between synthetic vanilla ("vanillin") and real vanilla extract. I don't like vodka either, but in vanilla extract I don't really notice it, if that is what is used. If I were making my own, I'd use brandy.

Nothing I would ever have said in the past, but this year I'm sick of summer and looking forward to frost. In fact I'd welcome a hard freeze at this point. I'd like to get the last of my outdoor work finished so as to turn my attention to indoor projects, but most of what is left to do outside...

I'm down to about a dozen tomatoes that I've been eating in salads and slicing to add to ham and cheese sandwiches. There may yet be a few tomatoes still ripening on the vine. But the bulk of my harvest is in freezer bags, waiting to be made into sauce later.

My property was part of a dairy farm for hundreds of years before we bought it. Hoping to find a couple metal items that we had lost, we bought a metal detector, but the only things it turned up were what one would expect, small rusted bits of farm equipment and bullet casings.

Muskrat's evil twin.

What do you use the goldenrod for?

Evidently most bikers today are old. No youngsters are stepping in to replace the old timers. So said the news reporter covering the annual rally in Laconia NH this past summer, and for sure it was a sea of grey-haired riders behind and around him. How can that even be? So your cartoon is...

It was raining so hard that they cancelled the farmers market in Manchester (city south of me) for this week. This came as a relief since I was vacillating about whether or not to make the trip. I need to go to Rutland (city to my north) for some things that can't be had in Manchester, so...

That cataloging system for the contents of your freezers is something I should adopt.

Drinking green tea and wondering if I'll have the energy to go to the farmers market tomorrow. I sort of need to go because my grocery supplies are running very low. Down to about a gallon of milk, a decent supply of both light and heavy cream, half a loaf of stale bread, and the last of 4...

T The threat has been neutralized, at least for now. Are there large populations of these feral hogs still running loose? Will electric fencing keep them out? I know a lot of people near me use electric to contain domestic pigs, but these guys are a breed apart it seems.

Poor piggies, but good eating.

That That's a pretty neat little shelter. The lambs want to help! Ha ha

Rest in peace Percy Schmeiser. Hadn't heard of him before, but good for him. Monsanto is evil incarnate.

These look familiar. My right knee looks just like one of these; my left knee is a bit better. Being strongly right-handed, my "good knee" is of little use to me. Wearing a wrap around my bad knee when I walk out across uneven ground, or lift/carry heavy things keep pain away and prevent me...

My tall sunflowers were all open-pollinated heirloom varieties, Arikara variety. I've saved seeds from them successfully each year. But they get eaten by deer if I don't encase them in a cage of tall deer netting. I've tried planting them in the ground, but without protection they are eaten...

For some reason I wasn't able to add to the partial post above, so I'll add it here: Another picture of these hybrid dwarf sunflowers, mostly gone by at this point: Then there are the large sunflowers I've been growing in this raised metal bed on the hill behind my house: This is from a couple...