My favorite time of year...

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."  -- B.C. Forbes

Usually, each year, we get a nice little haul of acorn squash, which are
perfect for making pumpkin soup.

I cut them open, remove the seeds....

...bake them, and remove the orange flesh from the dark green shell.

I puree the squash in the food processor and then freeze it to use later.
See? There's the orange good stuff in the upper right hand corner of the freezer.
The purple stuff on top of it? Pureed red beets, which are perfect for
chocolate cake.

 I made Asian-style pulled pork using cranberry juice, our own hot pepper jam,
hoisin sauce, ketchup, ginger, liquid smoke, soy sauce, our own garlic and
red onions, and cornstarch. It looks like a hot mess here, but once it cooked
down, it was *so* good. We ate it over cooked sweet potato chunks.

Look at our bean haul! They're in the jars and tupperware containers
around the crockpot.

There's my handsome beekeeper, coming down from bee hill.

The boyz are restless because Dad is outside. Eventually, when I was
downstairs folding laundry, they 'nose-pried' the door open and ran out to Michael.

We got some beautiful apples from McDannell Fruit Farm in Biglerville, PA,
which we always try to stop at on the way home from visiting my folks.
What is this? An apple crostata! Click here for the receipe.

Michael's putting the garden to bed.

And I made some apple crisp for tomorrow's breakfast.

The gorgeous fall reds, oranges, and yellows continue to spread across the hill.