Cucumber Blog Party

Last week it was zucchini, this week its cucumbers! Don’t you just love harvest time, basing dinner on what’s growing in the garden? Although cucumbers are great for slicing and eating plain as well as putting on sandwiches, Maryanne decided to have a...

The Scent of Lilacs

The lilacs have been blooming for over a week now and the scent as I walk out my back door is intoxicating. I love lilacs. As a child we had one next to the patio that I used to play around and had my kindergarten graduation picture taken next to it.It seems a mystery...

What are we doing today?

I have been spending alot of time recently fixing up my workspace and hadn’t gotten around to distilling the fennel I had put aside. So, today is fennel distillation. The shop smells wonderfully of anise/fennel. I use fennel distillate/hydrosol in my anti-aging...

Whats in the Still?

I haven’t distilled as much as I’ve wanted to this summer. My newly planted herbs just haven’t grown big enough to have the amounts needed for distilling. This is disappointing because I have bought a new still. I have been able to combine some of my...