In honor of the longest day of the year, aka the first day of summer, I present a list of goals for the season:

• Begin making our own butter.
• Begin making our own mayonnaise. (And have it turn out!)
• Begin making our own (flavored) yogurt.
  
• Make baby food for future use.
• Make ice cream (Perhaps make it a summer tradition?)
• Make cheese.  Have fresh mozzarella-making perfected in time for tomato harvest.
  
• Can sauces and produce. (We usually just freeze these things.)
• Freeze sliced fruits (so we don't have an all-winter fruit fast.)
• Eat foods grown within state for 2 meals a day, 6 days a week. (Eat foods grown within yard whenever possible.)
• Host a party serving only local fare.
• Spend at least 30 minutes outside, every day.
• Recycle and compost more than we throw out. (This one's cheating.  We already do this.  But I guess it's a goal to continue doing it.)
• Stop swearing.  (Okay, I know this has nothing to do with being homemade or being a hippie, but with the hippie baby learning to pick up language, it's something I really want to work on.)

I plan to re-evaluate this list on the last day of summer to see how we did, and make a new list of goals for autumn.
-Anna



(Photo taken on our Hawaiian vacation in Spring 2009.)