My View of Life on the Dock
Kudos to the Pleasant Street Tea Co for not only serving up one of the nicest Chocolate Mint Smoothies and yummy little macaroons, but for canceling plans and staying open late for our Crunchy North Shore Parents mommies night out meet-up so we could all hang out and enjoy! Nice!
Frenchman’s Pier, West Gloucester, looking at the Little River.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) means that you invest in the farm by paying at the planting season so the farmer has money for seed and then you get a share of the food they produce.
Our CSA keeps us in touch with reality of the seasons, the food, and gets us outside. (Not to mention it’s a great value and delicious!) It is so much fun every week picking up our produce and cutting flowers and herbs. Almost every week has pick your own such as blueberries and beans the week this was taken.
Here is the haul from our small share a few weeks back plus some focal art from my wee one…
Many local farms offer them and at less than $20 a week it’s a great value for our small share. If you’re interested, find a local CSA here at Local Harvest.
Happy Grill Stack is happy to see you! 🙂
This magnificent copper beech tree is apparently where some magic happens.
and then you can ride off into the sunset?
Green Meadows Farm – fat, sleepy, well-fed, happy piggildy-wigglies! We’ve watched these guys grow and someday we will call them food, but for now they are piggildy-wigglies!
These guys have a natural social living arrangement, a large area to roam and root, and in addition to high quality grain, are fed the occasional organic veggie by farm visitors. They love broccoli! Who would have thought?
We had a blast at the Summer Harvest Festival on Sunday and took so many great photos that I decided to so a series. I plan on featuring many great local farms more formally in my posting slot (once I get the time to go and visit them with camera in hand)! For now, enjoy the Summer Harvest Festival at Green Meadows Farm…
Raffle quilt and kids art made throughout the day
Farmer Andrews Dad driving the hayride tractor
Hayrides and Pony rides!
Ipswich Clambake, Appleton Farms burgers, great music, and people!
Sneaking up into the tree, which is exactly what I would have done as a girl
The Dixie Cookbook Band was splendid and I loved the costumes!
Green Meadows Farm Summer Harvest Festival Pie Eating Contest!
and the winner is!
Posting a bit earlier than my usual 2pm today to let you know about the Green Meadows Farm Summer Harvest Festival 11-3! Headed there now…
Chickens say: “TURN OFF YOUR GADGET and come to the farm before we mess you up!”
“BAWK!”
New Feature- Ask Ed.
Many of you guys know Ed from our many GMG Man vs Food Challenges. You might know Ed from his work each weekend cleaning up sections of the City as part of the One Hour at a Time gang with Donna Ardizzoni and Co. Maybe you saw him in our videos volunteering his time to help clear I4C2.
In any case Ed has been in the home repair and construction business for ever and as a FOB (friend of the Blog) I asked him to do a weekly segment where you the GMg reader could write in your home repair questions in the comment section and at the end of the week I would ask Ed the questions and he would answer them in a weekly video on these pages.
Here is The First Question Sent In By Beth Swan Which Ed Answers In the Video Below
Ed!
Pleased to have met you at the parade and what a great idea! I will have many questions for you as we are constantly working on projects with our 1929 home.
What should you do with a junction box in the ceiling that you no longer use (in this case for a fire alarm that we no longer hard-wire). Should you get a junction box cover, and then patch, seal, and paint, effectively removing it from sight, but leaving those lovely little mysteries for future owners to “discover”? Should you have it removed by an electrician to avoid potential problems (if this is even possible)? Should you just tape a superman poster up over it and pretend the ugly little problem never reared it’s tiny head?
—NOT an electrician
Ed offers honest and fair handyman services.
you can contact him directly for Home repair work at 978-479-6401
or his email housedoctors@verizon.net
Feel free to ask Ed a home repair question in the comment section here at Good Morning Gloucester and we will answer it in a video segment
or if you would like to visit Ed’s Website and sign up for his homeowners newsletter you can check that out here http://www.housedoctors.com/collard/home/
Check out these nice bright lobster buoys decorating the Gloucester House! They are always so friendly and accommodating when we bring our son and really have the most delicious, reasonably-priced food.
Tried any maple cotton candy lately? What about marinated lupine bean and hummus spread? Not to mention all the fresh peaches, apricots, and delicious produce feasts! Rob and I split a mushroom Puff Tart and two cold, local (Charlestown) Sodas for a late lunch. YUM!
What a great name for a boat! Spotted in Annisquam.
Kids Closet has a section of women’s clothes now too, in addition to all the awesome kids clothes there. A play area in the back is great for the wee ones!
Good Morning Gloucester 