As you know, if you have been following along, my goal in my garden is to be able to harvest food all year round!  Right now, my garden is in the transition phase between seasons.  We are cleaning out the beds from the summer garden and getting them ready for our Fall/Winter garden.  Currently, I can still harvest basil which is growing profusely and I am getting ready to harvest my large plant of it and dehydrate it to have a good supply of the dry herb in my cupboard.  I also still have bell pepper plants that are producing, but while they seem like healthy plants and the peppers taste good, they are very small.  (See the ones in the above photo?  No stuffed bell peppers for dinner around here!)  We still use them to add flavor and color to our food, but I don't know what I did wrong this year when it came to my peppers.  Maybe they needed more fertilization?  But, I am glad to have them.  
     So anyway, to fill out my need for veggies as we transition our garden, I have been going to our favorite local produce wholesaler.   They have had some great deals lately and I am going to tell you all about how I have been not letting all of that produce go to waste! 

     I've been waiting since last Fall to share this Relief Society Activity that we did back then.  I figured that it was too late for you to implement a Fall type activity at that late date, so I saved it for this year.  
     When Autumn arrives, everyone is ready to settle in at home and feel comfortable and cozy, have their loved ones around in quiet contentment...and that is the dream. It can be frustrating when your dream doesn't fit your reality.  So, we decided to talk about the questions, "What does a Cozy Home mean to you and how can I create one?"  It turned out to be a very well received and awesome activity.

     Getting ready for Fall is a much loved time around here.  Lindsey loves pumpkins, we all love cooler weather, the holidays are just around the corner.  So, getting your house ready for this cozy time of year is just the thing to boost that warm feeling.  Etsy is a great place to look for some new items to add to your Fall assortment, whether it be decor, Halloween costumes or cookbooks, Etsy has you covered! Today I'm sharing some favorites that we've discovered and hope that you will love as well.

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You guys, this year I am really feeling like a true gardener. I've fumbled my way through gardening the last few years, peppering my mom with questions, reading all her blog posts about gardening here, and checking on the good ol' Google Search engine. This year my mom gave me a few tomato plants. I don't want to say how many, just know that one of them did really well (I'm still picking tomatoes off of it!)

As I am learning and bringing in more and more harvest I've been trying to be creative in how I use up these vegetables. A few days ago I had several zucchini (if you want to dip your toe into gardening start with zucchini, you'll get so many you won't know what to do with yourself, just remember to come to our blog for recipes!) and several tomatoes sitting on my counter and I decided, you know what? I want to make some zucchini salsa!