Hello Dear Friends,

I have missed you, here it is Fall already! We have not had snow yet, but are nearly knee-high in leaves. This was a bountiful year for some things. We are fortunate to have many chestnut trees on this property that have always produced large nuts around the beginning of October. Last year we hardly got a one. Weather, squirrels or poachers are to blame. This year made up for all that and we harvested so many I didn’t think we had the energy to process them all. Usually we used a paring knife with a fine point to cut a cross on the top, flat side of the nut down. Then we pl...