Beeswax, Distilled Water, Borax, Mineral Oil
On Tuesday we traveled to Central Rock Gym to table our Beeswax Hand Cream. If you want to test yourself, rock climbing might be for you. Think of weightlifting and the weight you are lifting is you. It is quite the exercise, but it is not kind to the hands and we were happy toRead more about Quaboag goes to Central Rock Gym[…]
This Saturday is the last day of the Winter Farmers Market at the Hampshire Mall. We shall be there with eggs and hand cream And there are a lot of other wonderful vendors there this Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00: p.m. so come and get it.
Okay, the picture has nothing to do with the farmers market. It’s just a tree that stands out on Long Hill Road. All the others are losing the colorful leaves fast. At the Market, we’ll have honey, hand cream, dried ground habaneros, eggs squash and anything else surviving in the garden. The Amherst Farmers MarketRead more about Fun at the Amherst Farmers Market this Saturday[…]
Here in Western Central Mass, it has been a warm summer with a drought. Still, if you could keep the garden watered, there are rewards. Yields have been good for us. By now, usually, squash leaves are kind of dying back. Not so much this year and we are still getting lovely blossoms on ourRead more about A strange summer[…]
It had to be over ten years ago. My daughter asked me to order seeds to plant. They were put in the ground and a pretty reddish plant appeared in time that one might say was blood colored. Hence the name, Love Lies Bleeding. We did not order seeds next year. We did not needRead more about Love Lies Bleeding[…]
Our friends, Susan and Gayle have been busy making something useful and crafty. If you find they interest you, email us at rm@quaboag.co and we’ll let them know. How Susan and Gayle’s bird houses came into being Many in our region have come on difficult times due to the economic downturn. Maybe you know someone?Read more about Gayle and Susan are at it again – Charming bird houses made near the Quaboag River[…]
Our winter or lack thereof may affect production, but there are folks boiling syrup hereabouts. Below is my Sturbridge Times Magazine column as submitted to the editor for the March 1 issue. How Sweet It Is by Richard Morchoe The little boy put a few pancakes on his plate. That task done, he grabbed aRead more about Maple Syrup is also produced in the Quaboag region![…]
The leaves are past peak now, but still lovely. The picture was taken a week or so ago. I have heard differing reasons as to why it turned so nice and can’t say which is correct. Does it matter? I don’t know if regions outside New England have autumnal splendor as we do. Maybe weRead more about The Quaboag River foliage is beautiful this year[…]
Inside a Saturday Farmers’ Market I have been going to the Amherst Farmers’ Market for over two decades now. It is a wonderful place as the Saturday morning has many farms and townspeople mingling. I wrote about AFM in the August, 2008 issue of the Sturbridge Times Magazine. Below is the article. A few ofRead more about Back at the Amherst Farmers’ Market-Life is good![…]
Welcome to the inaugural post for the Quaboag Trading Company’s blog. This has been a slow evolution and unexpected. Nevertheless, primitive as we are, we are communicating in a blog. About 25 years ago, our family moved to the rural idyl of West Brookfield in Massachusetts. A few years before we had answered a newspaperRead more about Getting Started[…]