Week 1
Off to grandma's — bringing in the crop
Family Season
Our garden. Our kitchen. Our September.
1. Theme of the month
September
Harvest Month
How it went
Which of these will become our autumn habit?
— We came back from grandma's with three buckets of tomatoes and ate half of them in the garden. — Dad over-salted the first jar of cucumbers; the second was good enough that people asked for the recipe. — Mark made the jam himself and let nobody stir it: plum, a little bitter, but his own. — Nine of us sat down at the table, and the guests took jars home.
2. Weeks of the month4 weeks – from the bed to the table
Week 2
Pickling cucumbers and tomatoes, jars sealed
Week 3
Making jam and labelling the jars
Week 4
Laying the table and inviting guests
Our goal for the month
Make something with our own hands that lasts into winter.
3. Personal storylinesOur own goals and how they are going
Dad
Project:Learning to pickle
Cucumbers first, then tomatoes — by grandma's note
Progress
My goal this month:A jar that keeps till New Year
Mom
Project:New recipes
One a week, and I write down how it turned out
Progress
My goal this month:Teach my family two of them
Mark
Project:Making jam
My own jar start to finish, with no prompting
Progress
My goal this month:Cook mine and label it in my own hand
4. How our family felt
- Good
- Okay
- Bad
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Ideas for next month
— Month of our own neighbourhood: walk every street and draw our own map. — Bake bread on our own starter and take it to grandma. — Sort out the cellar and label everything that has stood there since last year. — A week of cooking only from what we put up ourselves.