Summer Reading – A Little Something for Everyone When you think about summer reading and your child, the goal should be to read for enjoyment more than anything else. Books can be at grade level, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with reading an “easy” book if your child enjoys it. Encourage your children to read anything …
Consecutive days with temperatures over 90°. Drought. Summer travel. And ultimately, indifference. Yup, that’s pretty much how it happened. Its how the garden died. I have been gardening in some way for 30 years. This is the first year in recent memory that the entire garden just bombed. And it bombed hard. My mother, on …
Canning peaches means capturing the summer sun in a jar to enjoy on the coldest winter day. Home canned peaches are not only delicious, but they are particularly easy to prepare. Since you can peaches in a boiling water bath canner, its also a lot less intimidating than preserving vegetables which require a pressure canner. …
Here in eastern Pennsylvania it is peach season! That means its time to can peach jam, sliced peaches, and peach pie filling so that we can enjoy it through out the year. Time to capture summer in a jar! I’ll be honest, prior to this weekend, I have never before made a peach pie! Peach …
When Mother Nature blesses your garden, and 12 zucchini all come to harvest at once, you need to get creative. I have reached out to friends and fellow bloggers to share some ideas. My friend Robin shared a Zucchini Cobbler recipe that her family enjoys, and she told me that it tastes just like apple …
