Last Monday was Memorial Day and we had many things to catch up on after 4 days of rain. Fences needed mending, new garden beds needed to be planted, chicks needed sunshine, dogs needed to be trained and so on. Our week began in catch-up mode and we continued with that for the remainder of the week. The beauty of homeschooling is every day is a school day and we are teaching life skills, not just the core “subjects.” (honestly, “core subjects” are not the focus of our school day, but that is a post for a different day). Kathryn and Graham are learning the metric system in math so we thought to learn in it a more practical way this week: in the kitchen.

Squash gets eaten at every meal in the summer and Monday began with a truly homegrown meal: scrambled eggs with squash and goat milk served with homegrown sausage. Later in the day we made our first small batch of pickles and then on Wednesday and Thursday we spent all day in the kitchen. Wednesday we bottled water Kefir and Kombucha and we made: granola, smoothie for popsicles, energy bites and blueberry scones. Thursday we dehydrated squash for winter, canned pickles, finished baking bread and made blueberry muffins.