Happy Autumn to you all! This is our favorite time of year-great colors, smells, harvests, cider making, and our anniversary.  We just celebrated three blissful years of matrimony preceded by 12 years of friendship.  Wow, time sure does fly by when you're living your dreams.  We are so thankful for all that life has offered us.  We're looking forward to sharing our adventures with you.  2008 has been a great year of networking and crop growing, finding us planning for a banner 2009. 
    The end of September found us extracting 34 frames of honey, yielding approximately 90 pounds of glorious golden goodness.  Our friend Mike found a 3 frame manual honey extractor for our homestead.  Last year my mentor Bob extracted our honey in his honey house, a fabulous facility.  We wanted to do it the hard way this year, truly appreciating Bob's help last year.  Our honey is unfiltered and unheated, containing all the subtlties that make it so healthy.     
    Joe and I spent 5 hours uncapping and spinning the honey frames, teaching ourselves technique along the way. Joe was a great sport, especially when the bees found their way into our shed and were crawling in his hair and up his pantlegs.  I am accustomed to their behavior, but it was a new experience for him.  Although working with honey is fun and delicious, it does make EVERYTHING sticky.  Honey on your glasses does get you down.
    Early October found me wrapping up farm markets and field chores, getting ready to move back to Bethlehem, PA for the winter.  Joe and I spent two entire weekends processing all the gleanings from our fields: basil, tomatoes, apples, chard, spinach, etc.  We thoroughly enjoy spending time together in the kitchen, no matter what the task.  Salsa, sauce, clear tomato soup, pesto, and applesauce now line our shelves waiting to be exulted in the depths of winter.  Now I am home, enjoying the daily company of my husband.  Lots of preparation to be done before our 'sprout' arrives in 7 weeks....

 

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