August is crunch time. I should have remembered this, and yet somehow I didn’t. 6 cups of quartered cherry tomatoes in the freezer, first batch of applesauce now in the crockpot. One of our trees ripens early. We missed all of its fruit last year, but this year we picked through the drops quickly, snagging the good ones for eating, collecting the others for our pig (raised by a friend - piglet pics a few posts back). Still have cabbages and cukes to deal with, but the counters look a sight better! #augustonthehomestead #minihomestead #puttingby #growyourown
It’s a girl! Welcome to the world, pretty monarch!
We peeked in the jar over breakfast today, and where yesterday there was a pale green chrysalis, today there was an actual butterfly! Not knowing how long she’d been out, we hustled outside to release her...and sat in the garden for 45min while she dangled from my arm. I ended up transferring her to a large sunflower to finish drying (mama needs to eat too!), but what a cool experience! 📷: @cavjoshh #raisingmonarchs #monarchbutterfly #butterflyrelease
How beautiful!
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Breathtaking images. Thank you for posting such lovely photos.
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