http://neilfeather.com/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed?url=http://neilfeather.com/fwp_portfolio/1248/ I’ve started harvesting the apples. I’m got some neighbors who don’t gather the apples, and they’ve given me permission to harvest. These apples look green, but are actually quite ripe – even quite sweet. The plan is to make apple butter this year in great quantities.
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First 20 Gallons of Apples.
18-Sep-13Ye Manticke Apples of Ye Catskilles.
22-Nov-09Diadi Last year the local sages were abuzz with predictions of a snowy winter, for the apple-trees, to which vegetable they attribute the gift of prophecy, were loaded down with much fruit, and “did bowwe their heades to Lord Winter.” I don’t know if there is any correlation, but I will say that it was a […]
Our Dumb Predecessors.
03-Nov-09Whenever I think the world is coming to an end from stupidity, I just read old books. The one that has been inspiring me recently is (to be honest) Thoreau’s reading of old books. But Thoreau is approaching old-book status himself anyway: “I learn from Topsell’s Gesner, whose authority appears to be Albertus, that the […]