tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36556837038403162482024-02-02T01:50:02.747-07:00Hill House HomesteadHill House Homesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17621304891022658968noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655683703840316248.post-932278940761994352022-12-10T16:23:00.000-07:002022-12-10T16:23:37.975-07:00Harvesting Moringa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixv5ONgPLwFtE9qcD3wWQf9GzDl2FfHoRmqedKZFlMOfOWh4qqXI06O55YzQmszCsq8Ce2E3sZYeV8VjPi0hYbvbMnFKFFvBehsPnfoYtgdS5hN_91gpScjiM2WeXcruuldVj3VIH66q9p5ZduP-sgRi_1KP88Ht4ygXJmY7zgLi__Sizac_HAviVg/s2048/Harvesting%20Moringa.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1415" data-original-width="2048" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixv5ONgPLwFtE9qcD3wWQf9GzDl2FfHoRmqedKZFlMOfOWh4qqXI06O55YzQmszCsq8Ce2E3sZYeV8VjPi0hYbvbMnFKFFvBehsPnfoYtgdS5hN_91gpScjiM2WeXcruuldVj3VIH66q9p5ZduP-sgRi_1KP88Ht4ygXJmY7zgLi__Sizac_HAviVg/w640-h442/Harvesting%20Moringa.png" width="640"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Have you heard about Moringa trees? The leaves are considered a <a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/moringa-next-superfood" target="_blank">super food</a>, full of goodness. I use the leaves as tea. You can buy powdered Moringa to take as capsules too. You should Google it, perhaps a Moringa tree is in your future. I planted my Moringa tree from seed in May of 2021. Typically, these trees grow extremely fast, many feet each year, but mine struggled for the first year. My ground is so hard I don't believe it's tap root could penetrate deep enough to give it the start it needed. Moringas love the heat and as this summer began, it slowly started to grow, and after a few rains it really took off. It went from about 2 feet tall to just over 14 foot this year. I wanted to begin to harvest the leaves but chose to wait until the last minute. I noticed the flavor of the leaves changed from a mild radish taste to more of a spinach flavor, I'm not sure what that means. Next year the tree will be larger, and I will harvest as I have need.</span></div><span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><a href="https://hillhousehomestead.blogspot.com/2022/12/harvesting-moringa.html#more">Read more »</a>Hill House Homesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17621304891022658968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655683703840316248.post-53494598024915602392022-10-24T14:46:00.002-07:002022-10-26T15:49:25.830-07:00Fall Garden 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDoCoiSHkoaNtt4yYVkZuZbHnTf2Q6dD-B2puBC2FvF-1cOiGS0XBDRgZxi9FIIIJt57GMPmVwDyvrQDuzcyvC-Et3f1_S-D8Fihnx8hR-ctP_JEG2zflu1oxslcdtHLLI59EFIHgc776h1OVXn68ztZc3dr9LFjgvs4Pm1Qo2ae1CbUPvKt7vaR3q/s4000/Fall%20Garden%202022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDoCoiSHkoaNtt4yYVkZuZbHnTf2Q6dD-B2puBC2FvF-1cOiGS0XBDRgZxi9FIIIJt57GMPmVwDyvrQDuzcyvC-Et3f1_S-D8Fihnx8hR-ctP_JEG2zflu1oxslcdtHLLI59EFIHgc776h1OVXn68ztZc3dr9LFjgvs4Pm1Qo2ae1CbUPvKt7vaR3q/w640-h480/Fall%20Garden%202022.jpg" width="640"></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This is my happy place. When I need to calm down, or take a break, rest, or recharge in any way; this is where I go. Its where I bring visitors and show off to the kids and grandkids. I visit it first thing in the morning and the last thing before dark descends. We had a good rain, one that was slow and gentle enough to soak into the ground rather than ran off; it was a good time to take pictures. </span></div><div><span></span><span></span></div><a href="https://hillhousehomestead.blogspot.com/2022/10/fall-garden-2022.html#more">Read more »</a>Hill House Homesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17621304891022658968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3655683703840316248.post-44688335975974479352019-09-06T14:05:00.003-07:002021-06-18T18:19:30.070-07:00Fried Apples<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think this has been the worst gardening season I have ever had! And I thought my spring season was bad. Gosh it makes me want to just throw in the towel but I love to garden so I know I won't. And truly, I didn't give it the time gardening needs as I was stretched pretty thin with the Christmas season and my new <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HillHouseSoapworks/">soap biz.</a> </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love Cornbread and I love Blackeyed Peas so why haven't I written this post before? I have no idea but I wanted to do something for New Years Day and you should be eating Blackeyed Peas for good luck on New Year's Day right? You have time to go to the grocery for ingredients before tomorrow. Here's how I make this dish. Remember that it's only Papa and I eating this (it is enough for dinner and lunch the next day) so you may want to double the recipe if you have more people to feed. This is a very frugal dish to make.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every year we have <a href="https://familylifeandhome.blogspot.com/2012/10/family-harvest-day-2012.html">Family Harvest Day</a>. I plan games for the kids, and the dad's play along too. But the mom's usually just watched. I decided we needed a game just for them. So, The Farmer's Wife Apron Game was born. Please excuse the not so great photos, they are from a few years ago. I keep forgetting to takes pics these days!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey everyone, I have opened a small <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HillHouseSoapworks/">Bath & Bodycare Boutique</a> called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HillHouseSoapworks/">Hill House Soapworks</a>, on Facebook. I have some fun Halloween items in there, and will add more items as I have time. I plan to eventually carry a full range of Body care items. I would love for you to visit, Like and Follow. I also have a Facebook Group you can join, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1828501557167435/">Hill House Soapworks Group</a>, to hear about new items before they are stocked in the boutique. Thanks for your support!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've waited so long to write this post that it almost seems pointless. But, this is for me as much as for you and I want to document life around here so I guess better late than never. Let's see what I can remember about August.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> You have heard when life gives you lemons make lemonade? Well when life gives you a fallen cake make cake balls! Last week I was asked to make a German Chocolate Cake for a birthday dinner. The cake planned was a 2 layer round cake that would look nice a a pretty white cake stand. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The main attraction at Kids Club this summer has been what we call Clue Search using a Decoder. Basically, I write clues in code that lead to another clue that leads to the next clue, and so on. What are they trying to find? Well each time it is tailored to what that days theme is and I always give them a verbal clue to start out with. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once, I used the verse, knock and it shall be opened as the verbal clue, so the first clues where taped to doors. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The kids love figuring out the clues so much there really doesn't even have to be something at the end of it all to find. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">June is over and it was one of the hottest Junes on record here. I know 119 was the official high one day this June, but I can tell you I heard reports of plenty of people saying their cars were registering 123 and up, one said 128! In the summer here, I often get cabin fever. It usually sets in about August but I already have it this summer. Glad our monsoon rains will be starting soon.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I post the newest garden journal post here monthly. Scroll down for each month posted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well here's the front garden! When we moved here, the house was not painted, just bare stucco. And nothing but dirt and weeds in the front yard! It was (and still is unfortunately) a major fixer upper. After we had lived here about a year, I decided I just had to plant something in the front yard. I put down a soaker hose and planted some cosmos flower seeds around that. A neighbor was out for a walk and told me I was wasting my time. He said nothing would grow up here on the hill, all rock and clay. Well guess I proved him wrong!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thought I would show you my gardening efforts in my back yard. My back yard has come a looonng way! Yes it is possible to grow a large variety of things in Phoenix, the trick is to forget everything you think you know about growing and re-learn the desert way. I bought books, looked up things online, and still didn't get anywhere. After a few years of trying with little to show for it, I found a group on Facebook called Organic Desert Gardeners of Maricopa County. If you live in zone 9 I highly recommend joining!</span><br>
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