my friends time is of the essence this is the very last day after today there
will be no more of harvesting I waited to the very last minute behind me I got
all of my storm windows put in place and now I have to finish harvesting so many
of you have asked me about my flowers and how to save the seeds so many of you
asked me all kinds of questions about harvesting all of my flowers and things
like that so today today is the very last day before you know it the
snowflakes are gonna fall so let's get started and today's chores
it stays like this I'm really thankful for my baskets because I use my baskets
to harvest all of my herbs and after tomorrow a heavy frost that's gonna hit
and that means everything is going to crumble up and die so we have a few
moments yet so let's get everything started it is some baskets and a pair of
scissors and I'll show you what we're gonna harvest right but it's about 40
degrees so we're gonna start with my marigolds all you have to do is you have
to pick the flowers off the maracle's and let them dry and those will be your
seeds for next
this is marshmallow and the leaves of the marshmallow are really great in
making SAVs for your skin so we're gonna harvest a lot of these leads now when I
make my stabs I only make them with dried ingredients I don't use fresh
because I've always had a problem with things molding here so I always DRI my
things
now let's harvest some tea now I'm going to harvest my grapefruit tea this is my
highly praised tea I love this I use this for all kinds of potpourri
also I can use it for drinking it's amazing so this is my grapefruit tea and
I want to get the rest of it harvested
hey so there is a grapefruit team now we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna
harvest my peppermint tea and then we can call it a day
this time of the year the tea is really straggly the springtime is the best to
harvest your teas but with frost coming we want to get as much of it as we can
and now we're gonna put everything into my big dehydrator yeah you heard me
right this is my greenhouse I use this as a dehydrator you go in a couple of
weeks we're gonna package everything up and they will be our seeds and there
will be our herbs so today's the last day I got some more work to do
so there's onions those are the tops of the onions they produced all summer long
and so I need to cut the tops off and I need to dehydrate them and those are
like chives to me or like onions so I'm gonna clean up them tubs and I'll put
them in the garage for next year everything is winding down and they're
it's the last of my garden it's been a good year in the garden now for the
finishing work that I have to do today enjoy
it's time once again for Fanny's diary and we are on November the 5th 1943 and
Fanny writes today I finished so are you dressed for Marion no Marion was my
husband's mother and that was Fanny's only child I know I get new subscribers
every day I got a comment yesterday wondering if we can buy Fanny's diary on
Amazon that was so precious Danny is my husband's grandma and Fanny was like a
mother and a grandma to me and I'm gonna explain to you just why I got married at
age 17 and I moved on to the family farm I moved quite a distance from my
childhood home and Fanny lived right across the field from me Danny lived in
a doggy house so what is a doggy house well in the Amish terms that is a house
for the in-laws or a house for the grandma
Marian my husband's mother was an only child and so when they built a new house
and moved off the farm they built in a little addition an in-law quarter for
Fanny and my husband and I we had bought the farm so we were all together in one
little community and that is where all of my memories in my just the things
I've learned in life have come from I often wonder what would Fanny think
knowing that so many people have heard her diary just remember her diary was
for her only and so some of the things she talks about some of us will never
understand fully she never dreamed that the world would hear her diary
you