Colorado Cupboard

Colorado Cupboard is a unique gift shop in Longmont, Colorado where I sell some of my products. Located at 2001 North Main Street it is far enough north that it is convenient for travelers on highway 66 on their way to Rocky Mountain National Park. At the Colorado...

The Unlikely Lavender Queen Review

I was very excited about reviewing Jeannie Ralston’s book “The Unlikely Lavender Queen” for no other reason than that it dealt with the subject of lavender. I soon found however, that this book is much more than Jeannie’s memoir of her lavender...

Preserving Chives

Have you ever tried to dry chives for culinary use? Well I have and they taste alot like paper when they are dried. I guess they have to be freeze dried to preserve the flavor. What I do now is to cut the fresh chives with a scissors into small pieces and put those...

Under The Sun

Tina Sams never fails to amaze me. I have mentioned before about her magazine “The Essential Herbal”; now she has compiled articles from the first 5 years of publication and put them into a book entitled “Under the Sun, the First Five Years”....

First Snow

It’s a beautiful wintry day here in Colorado with our first big snow of the season which measures about 7 inches. We booted up and went cross country skiing across our pastures. We let the goats out – yes, goats, we just got 2 angora goats, and they followed us across...