Another busy week here and time for an Urban Update already. This week flew by here in the garden and mostly in the kitchen. We finished up processing all the grapes and found a new way of preserving some of…
Urban Update #4
This is the last full week of September, and I just don’t know where the summer went. Autumn is one of my favorite times of the year and I am usually ready for the summer to be over. This is…
Spiced Plum Jam
This spiced plum jam is a little bit of Christmas in a jar. Beautiful plums paired with a little bit of spice and there you have Sugar Plum Princess jam! I will be using this to make a flakey croissant…
Urban Update #3
This week we took a little break from all the garden and kitchen activities and took a couple small trips here in Ohio. We are blessed to have the means and time to do this. Many can’t leave their homestead…
Urban Update #2
We can definitely feel that Fall is right around the corner this week. The night temperatures are much cooler and the mornings crisp. A busy time of year for sure with all the harvesting, canning, and preparing for the winter…
Urban Update #1
I am hoping to do a weekly urban update to give you all a look at what we are doing here on our little 1/4-acre urban homestead. I have been wanting to start this for a while now but there…









