a family of makers

I am grateful that both my children are makers. My son and his girlfriend spent the day gathering violets, so he could make a batch of violet infused mead. Joseph began making mead about two years ago as a way to use up some of the honey our bees produce each summer. Two years later he is deep down the mead rabbit hole, and our basement is slowly filling with beautiful hand-labeled bottles fill with all kinds of different ferments. I am not unhappy about it.

common blue violet flowers in May (Viola sororia)