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Dandelion jelly turned out amazing so far even though a bunch of my neighbors mowed before I could get to them 😔 but look how pretty! And tastes a lot like honey mmm 🍯🌼

this plant nursery up the mountain was so lovely🌻

“The flower, when it wilts, becomes the compost. The compost can help grow a flower again. Happiness is also organic and impermanent by nature. It can become suffering and suffering can become happiness again.”― Thich Nhat Hanh

The Ripening, 2024

About to make and can about 6L of tomato sauce 🥫 for the winter ❄️

My first big boi 🍅

Source: beth_thefirstyear on Instagram

I have four muffin tips for making bakery style muffins at home.

Tip number one:

Rest your batter for 15 minutes in your mixing bowl after you make it. This is gonna allow the starch molecules to swell and absorb, creating the thicker batter and the thicker batter is known for doming!

Tip number two:

Fill your muffin holes with at least six to eight tablespoons of batter. That’s like a heaping half cup okay. You want them super full so they’re gonna create that dome.

Tip number three:

Kinda goes along with tip number two. You’re only gonna fill every other hole in your muffin pan. And why we do that - that’s so the muffins that are baking can spread and dome without running into their neighbors. Because when they run into their neighbors they get like square edges but we want perfect dome circles.

Tip number four:

You’re to bake your muffins at a high temperature initially. That’s gonna be 425*F for the first seven minutes. And then keep them in the oven and lower the temperature to 350*F for the remaining bake time. Starting the muffins off at a high temperature initially allows the muffins to rise rapidly and it sets the outer surface of the muffin, producing a dome shape.

There you have it. My four muffin tips for creating bakery style muffins.

Summer harvest is winding down and fall harvest is taking off! Broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant and brussel sprouts are exploding in the greenhouse. Using grow bags for the first time as I haven't had a ton of success using five-gallon buckets.

First time canning! Made 100% home-grown "Chow Chow" relish. It's not much, but I'm very proud.

I've attached the recipe I used below:

DO get it twisted ❗️ You SHOULD rent a rototiller 🚜 and dig up your lawn 🥵 to plant NATIVE WILDFLOWERS 💐🦋🌱🌷🐝🌺🌻🐛

Garden today

Found a forest church today.

🌼humble brag🌼 my homemade two-ingredient bagels have been getting progressively more stunning every week.

1 cup flour of choice (+ 2tsp baking powder)

1 cup nonfat Greek yogurt

Egg wash tops & add seeds/topping of choice

Bake at 350 for 18 minutes then broil for an added two minutes.

9/2/24✨

✨how it started vs. how it's going✨

I'm in love 🥲

Pumpkin patch progress post!

LIFE GOAL UNLOCKED 🔓

It finally happened.. my garden was chosen. Our very own greenhouse fren 🥹😭

I've already built a toad abode next to a water feature and left a large earthworm as an offering. Oh how I hope he/she isn't traumatized by my unwavering love and chooses to stay!

so this is how i started down the rabbit hole of wanting/needing a frog pond...

it all started when i was dumb and left my gorilla wagon outside during that hurricane that came on through, beryl betty, beejou, beetlejuice... already forgot the name. but it dumped a TON of water in the span of only 1.5 days, so of course the wagon got full super quick. i guess it also rained frogs instead of cats and dogs because some frogs laid eggs in said wagon cart. now the thing is, i own this cart wagon gorilla because i need it. i use it quite often, considering how many raised beds i've been constructing and replenishing compost for. but frogs win over me.

i've been checking my no longer gorilla but now frog wagon cart daily since then, and now i'm down to i believe 5ish tadpoles just chilling in there. and yes i washed my hands thoroughly after this video. also wave hi to me at the end.

i believe i have picked a good dedicated space for a permanent frog pond in the middle of one of my raised beds in the front yard. i plan on surrounding it with vegetable plants all year round (dinosaur kale in the winter, then next year will be purple tomatillos). i had cantaloupe plants in it before but man i couldn't reach the middle both because of my back and because the bed is just too square.

so the only remaining question i have before i commit to this is that do i need a run-off drain drilled near the top for the next downpour, or does it just do that on it's own and no worries about it?? this is an old hydroponics bin that i used once and was like 'cool. but a tower would be better' so i don't plan on using it ever again for that purpose.

thank you to soooo many people who helped me when i first panic posted about what to do: @the-thing-of-worms, @martha-anne, @roseredsnow, and @mrsjdavis. without your advice or thoughts i would not have kept going with this idea!

i now know to add plants to the water, and going to add rocks of various sizes in and around the pond. i'm debating on adding fish, because as much as i would love that idea - i'm worried about the pond freezing in winter and also not only parsley but other cats in the neighborhood just coming and eating them all. but i guess that's nature for you. totes going to put in a water pump to keep the water moving, that will be like step 1.

oh, and a photo of the frogs that live in my yard. no idea of the species, but man they are everywhere.