Making Pear Crisps

Where I come from (and fortunately also where I'm living now), you can find rosehips, or dogrose, growing everywhere. When I was a kid, their thorny branches annoyed us sometimes, because we couldn't get

On my homestead, which I prefer to call a cottage, the yields this year are unpredictable due to the long winter here and continuing cold weather as we move into July. Usually, the southwest of Washington