Joshua Enns collecting maple sap, March 2018.
Canned maple syrup from the Brubacher House grounds, March 2019.
Crab Apples
Crab apple trees on the lawn of Brubacher House, Spring 1993.
Apple blossoms, 1996.
“Jennie experimented with heritage canning and preserving recipes, and displayed the wares in the basement pantry cupboard. Crabapple jelly was the most successful and most delicious. The recipe was often requested and shared (1 cup sugar to 1 cup juice from cooked, quartered crabapples. Boil juice/sugar mixture until it sheets off a spoon. Pour into hot jars.)”
Crab apple harvest, 2019
Vegetable garden
Gimbels’ garden, 1993.
Excerpts from Dorothy Bean’s diary:
May 14, 1983: Dug more flower beds and planted onions and sweet peas.
June 8, 1983: Planted Seneca Chief corn and onion sets.
July 13, 1983: Picked 1st peas.
August 28, 1983: To Erb St. Ida and I spoke to the children on “Our garden”. Had basket of flowers and veggies.
March 29, 1986: Dug parsnips out of garden.
October 2, 1986: In afternoon went to Brubacher House to clean up garden. Pulled up carrots, beets, potatoes, tomatoes and horse radish.
The Maitlands’ garden, April 1980.
Four Square Garden, July 2019.
Fall harvest, October 2019.
Berries
Elderberry tree on Brubacher House grounds, September 2006.