When you peek through our front window, you'll see Kelda's piano, formerly of Alexandra School. Max Clarke has been in to tune it, and this week Mark Himmelman will be in to play it for you. Please put a little something in the jar on the piano to help Mark on his concert tour to Europe later this year.

In the window you'll also see Wally's Grow-Ups, vertical garden pots that can be rotated to the sun and can be purchased already planted with an assortment of flowers or edibles, including the edible-pod wing peas with the beautiful red flowers in the top pot.

Raccoons got in to one of our hen houses last week, so I appreciate your patience last Friday as we waited for a new supply of eggs. We're stocked up now, and remember we can always provide you with a half-dozen if that suits you better. Although Ted doesn't like the mess I make in the pan, I like my eggs scrambled, with a little scoop of salsa, or Pickle Guy's Pyro Peppers, on the side.

We're all restocked with perogies, and last night Kelda made a batch according to Nadia's instructions (just ask for a copy) and made a delicious grated salad out of Persephone's turnip and radishes and Wolf River's kohl rabi. In case you haven't tried the latter, it looks like an "organic green sputnik" and tastes like mild broccoli stems with a hint of radish. You can add it to a raw veggie tray, peel and grate it into a slaw or steam it. Kelda dressed hers with some mango garlic dressing from The Garlic Box www.thegarlicbox.com We've also added their garlic and dill dressing to our collection, along with the award-winning peach poppyseed dressing from Roothams Gourmet. www.roothamsgourmet.com which would be perfect on the fresh spinach we're still enjoying.

Thanks to Dawn at the Kilsyth General Store we have veggie lasagnas back again. She's also brought us raspberry, cherry and blueberry turnovers and her famous "Everything" butter tart, so no sweet tooth need go unsatisfied this holiday. And remember the ice cream from Mapleton's - ginger is great with a little square of Williamsford Pie Company's cranberry ginger oat square from Rose Murray's Taste of Canada Cookbook.

Elora Soap Company (actually in Paisley) has brought us a beautiful selection of their products, so after a good day of weeding in the garden, soak in a tub of their bath herbs and enjoy the latest issue of Mary Jane's Farm or GRIT.