Tag: Cowlick Cottage Farm
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Easy Bourbon Chicken
When family and friends gather together on our little farm, we all love to get in the kitchen and cook. This simple recipe only takes about 30 minutes from start to finish, and it is delicious enough to serve company for a casual get together. Bourbon chicken is kind of a misnomer, as there is…
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Garden Walk at Cowlick Cottage Farm
Just a few shots of my garden walk this morning. Everything is in full bloom! I love this time of year. I’m growing lots of sunflowers from seed. They are mixed in among my veggies to attract pollinators. They also make a pretty, impromptu support for cucumbers and other vining veggies. I’m very excited to…
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Take Time to Grow
There are probably as many reasons to garden as there are gardeners, don’t you think? For me, growing fruits and vegetables at Cowlick Cottage Farm started out …
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Comfort from the Winter Garden: Creamed Kale
This has been a strange winter weather-wise. While my family up north is buried from last night’s historic blizzard, the temperatures here will be in the 70s …
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P. Allen Smith’s Garden2Blog, Part III
After visiting Marlsgate Plantation and P. Allen Smith’s original garden home, Gaines, we were off on yet another Garden2Blog adventure to a gardener’s mecca, Moss Mountain Farm. One of the best parts about Garden2Blog was having the opportunity to casually tour P. Allen Smith’s garden home retreat. I must have taken 400 photos inside the…
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Summer in a Jar: Mango Lime Salsa
I was so lucky this week to receive some absolutely magnificent organic mangoes from our local organic farmer, Miss Louise of Turkey Hill Farm. Please see my post on Jamming to read about the Mango Man, and don’t miss the comments. I ran into Mango Man’s wife at the grape-crushing, wine-making event in Tally last…
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Satsuma and Bourbon Marmalade
It’s chilly, windy and gray at Cowlick Cottage Farm, so I am making Satsuma and Bourbon Marmalade this morning. Satsumas are a sweet, juicy citrus–a cross between Mandarin orange and tangerine. They don’t have many seeds, which makes them really easy to work with and lucky for me, they grow well in our climate. Marmalade and other…