Sweet Harvest Homestead

Hello and welcome friends to the sweet harvest homestead podcast, old fashioned homemaking for the modern woman, This podcst is brought to you in part by the naked pig.  Located in Oakboro north Carolina, the naked pig is home to some of the best grass fed beef and pasture raised pork around.  For more information, visit their website at the naked pig.com Early this morning I went outside to my herb garden to gather Comfrey to make a healing salve.  Herbs are best gathered in the morning after the dew has cleared, but before the heat of the day sets in and draws off volatile oils. While I was out there, I noticed that the persimmons on our tree are big and fat and have a muted peach tint to them.  After the first frost, they will make a delicious persimmon pudding. The pumpkin seeds that we planted in the summer have many bright yellow blooms on them, and a few tiny baby pumpkins are beginning to form.  You have to get out in the garden very early to even see the flowers opened becaus