Can your own Apple Butter

(Chef Ron, this one is for you!)

‘Tis the season- I’ve been collecting beautiful leaves, bought a humongo pumpkin to put on the hay bale out front, and have a bowl of squash sitting in the middle of my table.

I bought beautiful apples- SweeTango, Honeycrisp, and Haralson. 

We ate the first two, but I [...]

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Make Healthy Holidays Happen!

(Great things are often a surprise.  So it is with my friend Faith- we met, clicked, and wanted to collaborate right away!  Here is a blog post we wrote together introducing this great collaboration…)

The holidays evoke memories of family gatherings, traditions, warm hues of orange and brown and the deep reds of the changing leaves [...]

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Thanksgiving Primer III

I like the number three- everything seems to come in trifectas!

Thanksgiving is no exception- where the First Part is guests/menu, the Second Part is sketching out what needs to be done and asking for help, and the third part is:

Actually doing it.

The week before Thanksgiving is such a rush!

And yes, I [...]

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Plateaus and the Beekeeper’s Dream

Plateau.

A leveling out.  A period of relatively little or no change.  Flatness.

That’s what I think about when I think about a plateau.  I feel like I’m on one.

Some days I feel like napping.  Resting.  Flattening out, myself.

Why?  Why did my energy dip?  Is it the chill in the air, the hard [...]

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