Category: The Garden

Blueberry Blooms, How to Grow Blueberries, Best Early Blueberries, Blueberry Farming

Anticipating Early Blueberries

Spring has arrived along with several generous rains and the ground exploded into a luxurious blanket of green! I love this time of year…don’t you? There’s so much hope and promise and beauty everywhere. God’s blessings of growth and life are so welcome after the grey winter! Henbit and dandelions...
Growing Swiss Chard, How to Garden, Homesteading, Christian Homestead Blog

2024 Garden Takeaways

It’s a quiet evening as I begin to write. I’m enjoying the strand of colorful lights draped artistically (perhaps whimsically) over our living room windows. We call them our “Winter Lights.” Their glow brings a great deal of cheer to our home during these early evenings. With small bits of...
Elderberry Syrup Recipe, Healthy Elderberry Syrup Recipe, Easy Elderberry Syrup Recipe, How to Make Elderberry Syrup

Making Elderberry Syrup

The garden is coming along – and we are picking cherries, folks!! I also harvested the season’s first quart of honey and picked the first beautifully fragrant long-stemmed rose this week. What gifts from our heavenly Father! God is so good! One thing I have been impressed by this spring...
Fall Gardening, Planting a Fall Garden, Growing Greens, Homesteading, Real Gardening

New Ground

I feel like I’m making a new discovery. As if I was an explorer – hearing the heavy scrape on the top of a long-lost treasure, yet knowing exactly what I’m looking for. Time after time my heavy digging fork hits the ground with a rock on metal “thunk.” Time...