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...

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

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

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

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

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...

After a week away and several jars of sauce, pickled peppers and eggplants completed by my sister-in-law and Art's mom we returned to...

It's beginning. We have buckets of fresh peppers, cucumber, eggplants, potatoes, yellow pod beans, and tomatoes coming from the garden...

The garden is providing us healthy hearty meals everyday. We spend our morning tour picking cucumbers, peppers, onions, eggplants,...

We are officially in our window of 95 (35°C) and sunny everyday for three months. Now that's tolerable most days because of the low...

The mulberries are ripe and ready for picking. We laid down the plastic and my husband Art climbed up the tree. My sister in law stopped...

We wrapped up April with a very green garden with hundreds of plants in the ground and THRIVING! I asked Art if he thought we had enough...

Morning light brings joy to break the night.

So for anyone that lives in an area that is not very generous with rain during prime growing season you get the pains of watering. And...

It's nearly here. Spring. Our garden is popping with little bits of color and more are nearly ready to blossom. In order: Plum Flower,...

Art and I have upgraded our scythe/shovels to a dom dom (tiller) with various attachments. It was in large part due to maintain the grass...

I politely suggested to Art that we have enough trees for 2021. Just this week we've planted 25 blueberry trees, over two hundred...

We wrapped up our raki brewing season with an additional seventy liters from our grape harvest. Art has really mastered the art of raki....

I, Kim, spent nearly two months stateside visiting friends, family and completing a small book tour. Meanwhile Art kept the homestead up...

Mmm...Figs! The first round of figs have arrived and are honey sweet. Grapes are turning pretty quick and with the heat it's happening...