Ramp It Up: Hunting Wild Leeks-- May 2021

We gathered leeks a couple of times last spring and harvested some for freezing for the first time ever, due to needing leeks for Piper's birthday party in July. 

Everybody came along for a solid adventure in the Big Woods.

Cadence in the mayapples.

For these Big Woods trips, I usually pack a picnic lunch of sorts. This time, it took the form of a five-pound bag of gummy bears that Grandma Owen had shipped to us. FIVE POUNDS OF GUMMY BEARS! IN THE WOODS! Perfection.

Reading breaks in the Camel Tree-- always.

(taken by Millie)

Tadpole hunting is always a necessity.

Pictures like this are also a Big Woods tradition, only there are more children lined up now than there ever were in the past (lucky us!).

A telling picture-- Susannah in the foreground; Mildred laboring the the background.

And then the buggy walk homeward, through glades and fields.

Only a couple of more months until we do it all over again. (I cannot wait. Spring!)