Early Prep for Spring

Here in northern Albania it's always a bit of a mood during February. This year the mood is blue skies and sunny days but super chilly...

Winters on the Homestead

I, Kim, returned after a month away to a very different landscape. The mountains are capped with the fresh snow. The homestead has been...

Seven years and many adventures...

Last year, we attempted to dry whole persimmons but the outcome was tossed in the compost pile. But with the purchase of a small five...

Persimmon or Pumpkin?

As the holiday season kicks off across the pond we are still enjoying the last little taste of fall. Our fall meals change as the garden...

Fall Garden and Prep for Winter

Here at Homestead Albania we do a fair amount of canning. And this year we stocked the pantry with various versions of tomato based...

Four years, many wines ago...

We've picked, crushed, smushed, and fermented our çylek grapes. Yesterday we filtered and drained the wine from our 500 liter and 50...

September Brewing

In the last two weeks, we have made four rounds of plum jam, plum preserves, grape mushti (grape juice with a kick), grape pekmez...

A tasty month...

August always comes in with a variety of colors and changes throughout the homestead. Our fig trees are on a daily full five gallon...

Exploring to beat the heat

July was crunchy hot. So we turned on the irrigation to water the trees and the garden and headed north a few times this month. First up...

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