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An Oregon Cottage: Simple Homemade Life

Jami Boys

Hi, I'm Jami and I love to share simple real food recipes, easy gardening tips, and the best, quickest ways to preserve seasonal food. In my emails you'll find behind the scenes news from the farmhouse and doable, delicious recipes for every stage of life straight to your inbox!

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Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, We finally have glorious weather here in the PNW - although I'd prefer to have a few 70 degree days in between the last two weeks of 50s and this weekend's 80, it's still blue skies that I love. After weeks of rain (we're 2" over our normal rain for this time of the year!), I'm ready for it! I've wanted to share the fun new vegetable variety I'm...

6 days ago • 3 min read

Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, Happy May!! I'm so glad to be in this beautiful spring month where the possibility of sun and warmth is right on the horizon (for us in the north - I see those in the south already in shorts and dealing with 90 degrees!). Right now though, we're dodging rain showers trying to get yard work done and it looks like we will be working around them...

13 days ago • 3 min read

Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, Last week I harvested these from the garden: asparagus fall planted carrots, beets, and parsnips baby spinach baby kale from last year's plants gone to seed - I saved all the baby leaves as I pulled the plants and they are great! green onions chard leaves from last year's plants (still!) None of them are huge amounts, but I've added them to...

20 days ago • 3 min read

Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, I hope your week has gone well! We had a super eventful weekend last week - a memorial service for a dear aunt of mine on Friday and burial and memorial for Brian's mom on Saturday (who passed away last February). Talk about emotional, right? But they were both beautiful and actually life affirming - both women touched many people in their long...

27 days ago • 1 min read

Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, Look what I get to share with you this week: Lots of apple tree blossoms to go along with the plum blossoms I shared with you a few weeks ago!! This is a four year old apple that has never bloomed, just like the plum, so this is a big deal for me. Fertilizer for the win!! I have two other apples, but they were just planted last year and I don't...

about 1 month ago • 3 min read

Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, It's that time of year when the garden is waking up and I find I want to (sometimes need to) do something everyday the weather allows in my flower beds and veggie garden. Which is to warn you that the next few months will have more garden content along with recipes. 😀 The big thing this week was the arrival of bare root plants from Food Forest...

about 1 month ago • 4 min read

Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, I'm SO excited to share this with you! First, a reminder: last year I complained in this letter about our little orchard (two plums, three apples, and a peach tree) that even though one of the plums was 4 years old and an apple 3 years old, NONE of the trees has ever had even ONE blossom. That's right, not even one flower, let alone any fruit....

about 2 months ago • 3 min read

Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, Oh, the last week has been just glorious weather here - sunny and in the 70s for a few days!! In typical Oregon fashion the weather for Spring Break next week is rainy and cold. 😂 Though if you like to ski on spring break there will be fresh snow in the mountains! I did get all of the flower beds cleaned up last weekend (and finished The Other...

about 2 months ago • 3 min read

Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, Today I’d like to ask - is “healthy dessert” an oxymoron? Can you really have a good tasting dessert that’s actually healthy? I’ve spent the last couple of years experimenting and recipe testing on both cherished family recipes and new treats to see how far you can go to have a truly delicious dessert that is actually lower in sugar and...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, As I write this the sun is shining in all the farmhouse windows and the high today should be in the 60s! It did start out at 33 degrees, but I am itching to get out in the garden and start the clean up I didn't get to last week - yay! (In my defense, in between the rain showers last Saturday I did get some things cut back in the veggie garden,...

2 months ago • 4 min read
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