July ended with adventures, growth and creativity. Art and I joined his family for three separate day hikes in the mountains surrounding...

Art's family rented a guest house in the Lëpushë Valley in northern Albania this summer. We have visited and hiked twice in the last...

We are officially done with MULBERRIES! Well for the season. We collected more than 350 gallons mulberries for countless jars of Mulberry...

June has started much cooler than last year no complaints minus a slower ripening of tomatoes. We celebrated Art's birthday with a full...

Art's passion for hiking has tripled since we have started homesteading here two years ago this fall. We have explored many trails here...

We have four large mulberry trees here at Homestead Albania, three white (2 wild, 1 domestic) and one black (red). And a few more white,...

There are two major winds here in northern Albania. The southern winds come from the Sahara bring sand and dirt with a hazy cloud of muck...

May came in with warm sunshine, raki (moonshine) and additional blossoms. And hopefully a renewed since of freedom post pandemic. We had...

We had a few warm days this week before a few days of rain in the forecast. We took a look at our seedlings and a few starter plants from...