Kairos—“a right, opportune, or supreme moment in which something special and unique happens”
If you are so inclined, share a link to your “Kairos Moment” in the comment section. I hope you all have a blessed weekend!
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This Week in my Garden
It’s crazy what can happen to a garden in a matter of weeks. For so much of the summer, our garden is green. Lettuce, kale, arugula, Swiss chard, peas, beans, carrot tops, etc. But now…now is when the real fun begins. Color.
The raspberries are starting to produce juicy crimson fruits, tomatoes are moving from green to a pale red, and blood red beets pop from beneath the surface of the soil.
Join me today for a walk through our garden…
Just Peachy
The time has arrived again. My favorite food time of the year. Peach season. There is nothing that ignites more excitement in my taste buds than those handheld orbs of deliciousness. We are extremely fortunate that my in-laws have a beautiful peach tree on their property that has produced a record number of peaches this year.
So, it has been all things peaches in these parts, my favorite of all being peach pie. If you are interested in my Grandma Dit’s peach pie recipe, you can find it here. Enjoy!
A Day at the Beach
Living in the Midwest, we have little opportunity to make beach-side trips. But this weekend we had the wonderful chance to visit…Wisconsin. Yes, I know what you are thinking. The words Wisconsin and beach don’t really coincide, but Sunday my mother-in-law competed in a half-Ironman in Racine, Wisconsin and i must say, it was not quite the locale I was envisioning.
We arrived to find ourselves surrounded by sun, sand and waves. Words cannot do this sight justice, so I thought I would tell you about our day from behind the lens.
Kairos
Kairos—“a right, opportune, or supreme moment in which something special and unique happens”
If you are so inclined, share a link to your “Kairos Moment” in the comment section. I hope you all have a blessed weekend!
Beans, Beans Everywhere
One thing is for sure, we have a LOT of beans coming through our kitchen door these days. So many beans in fact that there is no feasible way to eat them all. Enter “Operation Dilly Bean.” If you have never eaten a pickled bean, a.k.a. dilly bean, you must make it your duty to eat one this year. A dilly bean earns a solid ranking in the top 3 list of pickled veg in my book. Yum.
This past Sunday found me hovering over the kitchen island chopping beans and breathing in vinegar fumes, with visions of dilly beans dancing in my head. The past few years I used a dilly bean recipe from this book, but this year I decided to mix things up a bit and try something new. I used the basic pickling recipe from this cookbook, and based on how great Miss English’s other recipes are, I’m sure this one will not disappoint.
All Things Garden
With July now well under way, we find ourselves amidst the heart of our growing season, with a list of chores longer than we could ever hope to complete in a day. Although I can sometimes get frustrated by this endless to-do list, I am reminded that the jobs of a garden are never actually done, so therefore I need just to work through each day, doing what I can to tend to this growing space of ours.
In honor of this height of garden productivity, I’ve decided to designate this week as “Garden Week” here on my blog 🙂 I hope you all enjoy this fun little adventure through our week of gardening bliss.
To start things off for the week, I wanted to give you a little taste of just what our garden is looking like. Off we go…
Kairos
Kairos—“a right, opportune, or supreme moment in which something special and unique happens”
If you are so inclined, share a link to your “Kairos Moment” in the comment section. I hope you all have a blessed weekend!
First Harvest
Yesterday was a big day for our school garden project. The garden was bursting with vegetation, so we decided it would make the perfect day for our first official harvest of the season! We were able to glean lettuce, Swiss chard, kale, collards, snap peas, beans, beets and carrots from our seven-bed school garden.
Once the produce was picked, rinsed and sorted, we drove to our local food pantry to drop off our donation. Along the way, we spoke of the importance of helping those in need for God tells us “to be openhanded toward [our] brothers and toward the poor and needy in [our] land” (Deuteronomy 15:11).
If you are interested in donating to the Rock River Valley Food Pantry, visit their web site here.
In Gratitude
This Monday morning I am grateful for…
~a wonderful vacation to the Northwoods of Wisconsin. (Lots more to come in tomorrow’s post.)
~those family members and close friends who pitched in to help keep the Fagan suburban homestead running in our absence 🙂
~Downton Abbey. Oh my. I have recently discovered this show, and have been devouring the DVDs ever since. It’s like a great British novel brought to life. What could be better?
~the leader of our book club for choosing The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for our next read. I am thoroughly enjoying being transported to the isle of Guernsey in the 1940’s each and every time I unfurl the pages of this novel.
~peas and beans just bursting in our home garden.
~a first hand learning experience for my girls. We plan to head to the local food pantry this week with our first donation from our school garden.
~the Mason jars strewn across my countertop, just waiting to be filled with all kinds of canned deliciousness.
~the fermentation frenzy that is about to begin this week…woohoo! Kombucha, yogurt and kraut oh my!
~all of you gathered here today! Wishing you all much happiness and health this week!
Making of a Home 