January 20, 2015 – 10:52 am
This fall, I was the surprised recipient of a beautiful bushel of pears from what we think is a Seckle Pear tree. That gift, however, did not come co-bundled with an abundance of time. I was determined that this gift would not sit too long while I put it off until the pears were passed […]
By Annie Mahle
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Posted in Breakfast, Canning and Preserving, Close to Home, Cooking, Desserts & Sweet Endings, Eco-Friendly & Sustainability, Fruit, Garden, Kids Food, My Favorite Things, Things to Sip, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
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Also tagged Annie Mahle, canning, Cooking, cooking with pears, Maine windjammer, perservation, putting food by, Recipes
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January 15, 2009 – 10:00 am
This book is an original way of viewing our global eating habits. Husband and wife team (photographer and writer) team up to photograph 30 families with their entire weekly intake laid out on their kitchen tables. An unusual family portrait to be sure and much easier to arrange than an earlier project which involved photographing […]
My research for a simply constructed hen house lead me to straw bale houses. They seemed simple to build, required little carpentry skills and they were cheap. Most all other options involved about $500 of lumber and materials to build AND I worried about the time it would take for me to do it by […]
There were now 28 ugly teen-aged chicks living in my house. They were dusty, scraggly and smelly. We are talking wood shop dusty because they constantly scratch the sawdust bedding put down for them in the kiddie swimming pool in which they occasionally stayed. The rest of the time they spent flapping their wings, hopping […]