The summer garden has been slowly growing the final tastes of summer. We harvested the last of the peppers, summer squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes. The tomatoes are lined up in a sunny window ripening. I miss summer already as we dig in the autumn weeds and get ready to set the next crop.

After a business trip this summer, we returned home to a basket of this Frederick-grown produce. Many of the produce items are heirlooms — like the “Cherrybelle radish” in the front right. Heirlooms tend to have higher nutrient content than hybridized vegetables (as I wrote previously). Frederick is excited about his creation and announced that…

We had live rattle snake excitement last week, we had a guy who parked on top of a rock, and Sunday we evacuated because of a fire. To be accurate, the boys evacuated and I stayed to take pictures. By the time we had the car packed with children and computers, and I managed one…

Frederick’s first choice of birthday cakes is those half-sheet cakes from Costco with huge frosting balloons on them. Knowing his preference ordering, we didn’t actually ask him what we wanted this year. I said, “Frederick, how about I make a Kentucky Butter Cake, my favorite cake from when I was a girl, and we have…