Recently my kids and I invited some homeschool friends over for a potluck to celebrate Harvest time. These gatherings are a new thing for us but one that I hope we can arranged every few months to recognize the season.
As a group we made hand churned vanilla ice cream and some lovely, bio-degradeable bird feeders.
It's quite simple. Take a small-ish pumpkin and cut off the top to make a bowl. Using sticks gathered from trees, press them into the flesh to make perches for the birds to sit on. Use jute string to suspend them. And fill with bird seed.
Within a day the birds had found our stash and it provides hours of delight watching the bluejays, chickadees and sparrows come to feed on our back deck.
