February came with sunshine, flowers, and new guests. We were busy bees this month here at Homestead Albania. Our Orchard Guard Tower ...

Piles and piles of limbs and vines stack up every January. Art has successfully cleaned the entire orchard, (800+ trees). He focuses on...

Build it and they will come is our dream for 2025. Over the last seven years we've been asked about accommodations here at Homestead...

November was stunning. We had mostly warm beautiful blue skies and sunny days. A vast changed to last years three week gloom and rain...

That's right, Art and I have called Homestead Albania home for six years this month. I left a fancy IT job in New Zealand and moved to...

September was a very busy month but oh so tasty. We've picked figs all month long. This makes our longest fig season in six years. We are...

Wrapping up August in three words: HOT, DRY and FIGS. Our watering game was constant to keep our plants and orchard alive. In the garden...

July was scorching hot with a record number of days breaking triple digits in Fahrenheit and over forty for those Celsius folks....

The garden is in peak production mode. Mornings consist of harvesting climbing beans, peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers,...