Today’s harvest We moved into a house on a one-acre plot of land and were lucky enough to inherit five full-grown black walnut trees. Our first year here, we didn’t realize our fortune and probably just complained about the slipperiness over which we had to mow in the fall. I remember almost falling with theContinue reading “Stealing from Squirrels: Harvesting Black Walnuts”
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Fruit Tree Planting
We’ve enjoyed the early spring by cleaning up a neglected part of our yard. Overgrown long before we moved in, about a 1/4 of our yard is now ready to become a mini-orchard. Several mulberry trees are scattered throughout this space, and today, we added two pear trees and two apple trees. Our fruit-tree-planting experienceContinue reading “Fruit Tree Planting”
The Poquette Zoo and Kitchen 