But don't worry - I am still preserving like crazy. Not only am I making jams, jellies, pickles and syrups on a regular basis, I am fermenting, curing, candying and dehydrating more than ever.
I decided to keep paying my monthly dues to keep my site alive, because most of the information included here is timeless and also who knows...I might find the time to post blogs again one of these days.
As always, my blog is a labor of love. I don't make money from ads, sponsorships or click bait - which I find so annoying I rarely read anyone else's blogs, no matter how much I adore the person or the topic.
Flower farming is very hands-on all year 'round here in zone 8b and it leaves me little time to write on my websites - yes I have more than one! My others are Faraway Flower Farm and Historic Faraway, and I can't find time write now to write on those either!
You can't find me on Facebook at Learn To Preserve, any longer - on September 1st, 2021, my main Facebook profile was hacked and it took down not only my Learn To Preserve page, but my other 3 pages as well, listed below. I lost the ability to recover them and apparently they were deleted by Facebook. It was pretty disappointing.
If you're on Instagram you can find me on one of my 3 Instagram profiles:
Or you can find me on Facebook once again, as of January 2022, where I post on my new Facebook page "The Barn Marché" which is a nod to the founders of our property, who started The Bon Marché department stores in Seattle in the late 1800s and who first built a summer home and barn on our property, in 1914.
I realized I haven't created a blog post since 2014, and it was high time I gave y'all an update.
Thanks for sticking with me,
Brook XO