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Medawisla in Maine
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🐞 Jacq Mac 🐦‍⬛ Birding 🌶 foodie with (never enough) penpals ✉️ and a (too-large but certified wildlife) garden 🌱 stargazing ⭐️ north of 45 degrees 🌲 where the moose roam and 🎶 loons call
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Decided on Johnny Rocket as the name of this beauty. (See prior post about naming sandwiches.) Based this on the etymology of arugula and since we added an apple, ode to Johnny Appleseed. Side of JoJos. #medawislatastes #medawislalaughs
Golden browned potato wedges rest on blue plate in front of panini charred sandwich halves, exposing layers of arugula cheese & roasted red pepper.
December 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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2025-2026 indoor grow is in full swing, just in time for Solstice month 🌱⭐️🌲 #medawislagrows
Opal basil sprouts through wet soil in 72-count (small) cells Basils, vining spinach and thyme fill out their 72-count seeding cells Cinnamon basil unfurls over Thai basil behind and opal basil in front, all awaiting transplant Up-potted basils join a cactus under grow lights, carnivorous plants to right help keep fungus gnats down
December 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Winter in Maine! No, not Tweety Bird having a bad day...This is what happens when bad squashes are left in the garden that gets snowblown in winter #medawislalaughs #medawislagrows
A yellow-orange glob of winter squash pops from snowy, grassy ground, freshly tromped by boots Yellow-orange guts of a winter squash smear across snowy ground with brown, dead vegetation around
December 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Eat the rainbow! Swiss chard going into new soup recipe... #medawislagrows Soon #medawislatastes Recipe link: adventuresincooking.com/broccoli-cha...
Rainbow swiss chard harvested & laying in the sunshine
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Got some late blooms of yarrow here, yeh natives!
Bright pink of yarrow pops against driveway on right and brown oak leaves left
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Frost supermoon means (almost) last harvest of rainbow swiss chard and long shadows 🌈🌱🌞
Rainbow swiss chard in a box Shadow of a person on lawn at 1500 EST 45d N 2025 Frost supermoon rising Rainbow swiss chard in a box
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Last-of-the-season pasta #medawislatastes Who else is still eating garden-fresh veggies in New England?
Multiple colors of ingredients cover penne pasta prior to a sprinkling of parm cheese Green and purple kaleidoscope of chopped African blue basil on a wooden cutting board Bright yellow-orange bell pepper slices sit ina metal bowl beside other mise en place ingredients The last red tomatoes chucked up in a metal bowl beside other mise en place ingredients
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Where'd the season go? Oh right, summer drought followed by fall food processing... peak foliage ended but the shrubbery stands out! #medawislagrows
Highbush cranberry burns red on the left, as the serviceberry on the right reveals its orange, in front of the yellow-green elderberry dropping more and more leaves everyday
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Blue fuzzbutts return in flight! www.nordmi.com/post/meet-bl...
A blue, fuzzy, tiny aphid rests on a purple cuff, hand in background to show temporary wings for the purpose of mating flights
October 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Finally! Traditional Maine baked beans (no ketchup) with nontraditional jalapeño cheddar biscuits 🌶 #medawislatastes
Two halves of biscuits rest at top of bowl full of baked beans
October 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Progression...but then, a set back canning peppers: 1 broken jar = 1hr longer night...ooops! #medawislatastes or tries to...
October 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Fears... everytime i go to hang one up...
A green wall of cast iron and map of Maine; smokey, because some is in use! 🤣
October 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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If ya know ya know...come back tomorrow for what #medawislatastes 😁
Yellow (or ochre) eyed, white beans, soaking in reflective water, in a metal bowl
October 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Especially when zucchini season is still strong?...so: Alfredo one night and latkes the next... #medawislagrows #medawislatastes
Fresh-egg pasta.looks like lemon-yellow underneath a creamy Alfredo and opal purple basil and white shredded parmesan Grilled zucchini latkes topped with a tomato bruschetta/tabbouleh and leftover, homemade dill dressing, with a side of charred shishitos (at 9 o'clock)
September 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Trio of Symphyotrichum sp. All the Asters! Happy September frome Maine! #medawislasights
Fuchsia colored Symphyotrichum flowers with bright, deep orange centers, against a green background Light purple Symphyotrichum with golden centers, against green background Bright white Symphyotrichum with yellow centers, against green background speckled with more white asters
September 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Processing season! What do you all cook for quick meals because feet hurt from all the work of standing by pots all day?? #medawislatastes
September 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Around the homestead: harvested onions to cure in the week of no rain that continues the 2025 drought; bumbles smother blooming asters; the new spinach vine surprised with delight! #medawislagrows #medawislasights
Purple onions are a new fav! With green tops from recent watering, they lay bulb forward on the dirt in the sun to cure A bumble bee does her thing on a fuchsia new england aster Purple onions (red bull variety) lay with green tops on garden mounds Brasella alba "rubra" spinach climbs bamboo poles shooting out green leaves; gray fence and green hedge in background; green posts and wire fence in foreground
September 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Now, this.is.flat.crust! #medawislatastes chicken-of-the-woods bartered for #homegrown ingredients like Basella alba rubra spinach & red onion that made this amazing #pizza
Rolled homemade pizza dough with homemade Alfredo for sauce on top.of a homemade pizza peel awaits pizza toppings Same thin pizza after baking with dark chicken-of-the-woods strips and green, cooked spinach leaves among other peppers, etc.
September 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Subtle signs of summer surrendering to autumn... #medawislasights #medawislatastes #medawislagrows
Monarch feeds on a red zinnia in #Maine Yellow green shishito peppers charred from the grill glisten with oil & salt before being devoured Several multi-colored sunflowers line a flower patch, with rudbeckia & zinnia in the meix; beeblm and asters in the background
September 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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September in #Maine ...best garlic year ever! #medawislagrows a front yard of garlic without photographic evidence 😜🌱💜
A woman's hand holds a 7-clove bulb of garlic for scale above a crate full of cured garlic bulbs Two crates of garlic bulbs from sorting cured bulbs A truck bed full of garlic freshly harvested; two milk crates of garlic sit in wheel barrel on right
September 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Tomatoes for sauc, also #medawislagrows
More reds were used in the making of sauce than these striped and yellows bawhaha
August 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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#homegrown #homademade eggplant parmesan over homemade pasta with #local eggs; sauce with #medawislagrows basil, thyme & purple onion. #medawislatastes eggplant--still on the fence...
Green thyme, purple onion half and purple opal basil leaves on a cutting board Yellow--from yokes--pasta dusted in flour 2 slices of Italian bread above dish of pasta covered in sauces with cheese covered eggplant parmesan Folded sheets of pasta sliced on cutting board, yellow from egg yokes
August 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Also love asters! #medawislagrows
Purple off-white aster spark against green foliage in late summer sun
August 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Love the cardinal flower!flowers! #medawislagrows
Neon red petals of the cardinal flower pop against the green background and periwinkle of globe thistles
August 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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This white admiral butterfly has seen better days...resting on gold beet leaf #medawislasights #medawislagrows
A white-striped black butterfly sits on a field of green leaves in a garden The white & black winds of a butterfly splay open on top of green leaves in a garden
August 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM