Making Cheese and New Friends

I have a wonderful aunt who has wonderful ideas like taking a cheese making class. It had been on her list of things to do and I was lucky enough to get to tag along earlier this week to join her in the adventure. I'm always interested in learning to make things at home, but cheese seemed a little intimidating to me. My worries were put to ease after meeting our lovely teacher, Christy Harris of Providence Hill Farm. She has been making cheese for a long while now and after hearing how she learned from working in her kitchen with farm fresh milk (traded to her on a barter no less), using a couple books and trial and error, I knew she was the perfect person to show me how it's done. It was a much easier process than I imagined it would be and we took home delicious fresh cheese at the end that could convince most that we were pros!

The Orchard

Top priority after purchasing our home was to plant trees in our orchard. Fruit doesn't start growing for a few years so there could be no delay in getting them in the ground! We took breaks from home remodeling to dig holes and stand out in the back and water them faithfully. It was well worth it, as they are all doing great! Even though they are still pretty small almost all of them had blooms on them this spring and it makes me anxious for the day they will start to produce.

Our orchards consists of: 2 Kieffer pear trees, Bruce plum tree, Granny Smith apple, Fuji Apple, Elberta peach, Reliance peach, Van cherry and Royal Ann cherry tree. This year we will add a second variety plum to complete the orchard.

Lynch Homestead Orchard Year 2

The Orchard