Welcome to fall aka the JUICY season here at Homestead Albania

Our garden has been on overdrive mode for the last few weeks. The cucumbers, peppers, squash, eggplants, and tomatoes are bountiful. We...

The love rush one might feel they first settle in a new place tends to dull after a few months or years. But after seven years and I feel...

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...

Homesteading has many challenges but the rewards are bountiful. As winter has stripped away all vestiges of life from most of the trees...

Vine to wine season has begun and fall is here to stay. The temps are falling to perfection. We love this time of year. Why you ask?...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

December brings us into a bountiful Persimmon season here at Homestead Albania. And this year we are trying a new preservation method of...

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

March came in with magical spring blooms popping up in nearly every corner of the garden, blue skies and loads of sunshine. We finished...

Ladies and Gentlemen we've struck oil, nah just kidding only water. The installation of a new well process has had it's share of...

I took time to walk around the nearly bare garden and take in all the changes that occurred this year this afternoon. We managed to...