Terraluna Inn

08/11/2026

It’s tomato season. We are swimming in tomatoes. They hang heavy on the plants, overflow the colanders and crowd the kitchen counters. Oh, how I wish I could save some of these days laden with abundant produce for a cold winter afternoon… Failing that, I often decide to devote an afternoon to canning salsa. Homemade salsa is a treat at our house and never lasts long. No recipe; just throw in what moves you and make it as hot or mild as you like!

07/04/2026

Happy Independence Day!

06/21/2026

I plant parsley from seed in the late fall. It winters over and gives us lush bunches of fresh greens in the spring. When the summer heat hits, parsley, like most other annual herbs, will flower and go to seed. I love this part of the cycle and use the beautiful umbels to garnish breakfast plates. By far my favorite thing about growing parsley is watching the variety of teensy pollinators swarm the flowers. Sooo sweet!

06/21/2026

Summer Solstice and the pollinators are out in force! Flowering herbs attract pollinators more effectively than any other flower. Some gardeners regularly plant two stands of basil, one in the kitchen garden and one next to the tomatoes. The one in the kitchen garden is snipped regularly, but the one by the tomatoes is left to flower, attracting hordes of bees to pollinate the tomatoes.
This is borage. It volunteered in the garden a few years ago and I let it remain. The bees love its blue cucumber flavored flowers and I use them to garnish drinks and desserts.

06/09/2026

Early June in the garden…today I planted the last of the summer seeds. I still have work to do in the greenhouse, of course, and in a few months, I’ll be sewing perennials for next spring and scattering poppy seeds for their winter chill. Even so, finishing the last of this year’s planting before the summer solstice really does feel like a celebration of sorts. Enjoy our beautiful early June garden. You will have to imagine the chorus of birdsong!

05/31/2026

It’s the last day of May and both James and I have been knee deep in spring projects. We are finally beginning to see the fruits of our labor. Look how beautiful Terraluna is in the spring!

04/16/2026

A beautiful, soft yeasted dough makes a gorgeous, savory breakfast roll spread with garlic butter and fresh spring herbs from the garden and filled with a variety of cheeses. Holy moly, does the house smell good!

03/15/2026

03/15/2026

St. Patrick’s Day has always been one of my favorite holidays. When I was a kid, it was important that you wore something green to school; if you didn’t, you could get pinched! Children who forgot would sometimes assert that their underwear were green but then came the challenge to “prove it” so that never really worked. My eyes are green but, believe me, that didn’t count either!
These days, I content myself with setting a beautiful table and cooking a traditional Irish feast. I’ll cook dinner on Tuesday, but for now…enjoy getting in the springtime mood!