All Things June
What I'm growing, eating, harvesting, crafting & doing this month.
First: come to my Summer Solstice Celebration!
This Saturday, join me for a Community Solstice Celebration. We’ll gather for a yoga class - Cultivating a Solstice State of Mind - at 7 PM, but you’re invited to come early for flower crown making, temporary glitter tattoos & body gems, and home-brewed Solstice Tea.
Stay after yoga for a cozy Solstice Fire with journaling, intention setting, tarot readings, and s’mores!
Bring a mat, a friend, and your favorite bug spray, and let’s flow into summer feeling grounded, glowy, and just the right amount of sun-kissed.
Details:
🗓️ When: Saturday, June 21
6:00–7:00 PM: Festival fun (flower crowns, tea, glitter)
7:00–8:00 PM: Solstice Yoga
8:00 PM–???: Fire-side activities
📍 Where: Kelly’s Backyard – 1 Cliff Top Drive, Loudonville, NY
🧘♀️ What to bring: A yoga mat (or borrow one of mine!) and bug spray.
What I’m Eating
Farm Box Update!
This week, our Lansing Farms CSA share contained: Radishes, Kale, Strawberries, Zucchini & Rhubarb
What I made: (More) Pickled Radishes, (Another) Kale Smoothie, (Another) Rhubarb Crisp (I’m telling you, the kids inhaled it!), the Strawberries were devoured whole, and the Zucchini is going on the grill tomorrow night for dinner!
I’ll need y’all’s help for next week:
What am I going to do with fennel and kohlrabi???
What I’m Growing
In early March, we brought home a new flock of chicks. Half were Cinnamon Queens and were collectively named Betty, thanks to their (temporary) blondeness, the other half were Black Stars (monikered Veronicas). The eggs should start pouring in any day now!
The Garden is in progress. Only one of our four apple trees fruited. Sadly, it was the Golden Delicious, the tree I was least excited about. But homegrown apples are apples. The boys have been diligent in protecting the trees from leafroller catepillars & aphids, armed with Neem Oil spray. We have a ridiculous number of potatoes sprouting in Brae’s potato towers, and the peppers & tomatoes are starting to flower.
What I’m Harvesting
The chives are wrapping up, and I’m starting to harvest buckets of Ginger Mint Julep mint. The mint is going in my water, and I’m drying a bunch for tea. The Betties & Veronicas are getting a fair amount as well. Any suggestions on ways for me to use this up are appreciated!
What I’m Doing
There has been A LOT of rain in upstate NY this month, and I spent the first week recovering from the Irish Flu we brought home from the Emerald Isle. But in between the raindrops, Stevie & I celebrated Pride in Albany with friends, we’ve been enjoying the boys’ recreational soccer, and lots of time in the backyard.
I’ve also been teaching a lot of yoga lately - to keep up with where to yoga with me:
I guess I’ll also be figuring out what the heck to do with Kohlrabi…
Fennel is literally one of my most favorite things to eat. You can slice it thinly and put it in salad or it can be a salad on it's own. Consider over spinach + feta + dates + almonds. OR: Cut fennel into chunks, mix with chopped red onions, salt, olive oil and roast in the oven until brown on edges. OR: You can surely also grill it, but we lack the grill. For Kohlrabi, just peel, slice, eat. If that gets boring, add salt. If that gets boring, try a little butter plus salt. Enjoy!