Stoney Acres

This week we are joining The Gardener of Eden for the Thursday Kitchen Cupboard.  Be sure to drop by to see what other gardeners are doing in the kitchen this week! We love green bell peppers!  Almost any meal tastes better with a few green peppers in it.  We use them in soups, salads, casseroles and stir [...]

So we have a lot of peas this year.  With over 12 pounds of shelling peas already and  a lot more to come.  Thank heaven for our freezer.  Both our families always had big chest freezers when were were growing up.  So we decided early in our marriage that we needed one as well.  We [...]

My regular readers will remember from our Monday Harvest report that we dug a lot of carrots last weekend.  We let them sit for a couple of days in a bucket of water because they had been frozen in the ground for quite a while.  They came out of the ground a little wiggly and [...]

There are very few things that come from the garden that are better than a perfectly ripe, juicy peach.  And in my opinion there are very few things worse that come from the garden than a mushy brown canned peach. Mrs. Stoney and I both can’t stand canned peaches, so for years we have only [...]