Welcome to fall on the homestead! -- We love fall! -- Fall crops : apples and pears -- Recipe for cinnamon apple sauce -- Apple and pear varieties -- Recipe for apple chips -- Uses for cores, seeds, and peels -- Fall crops : pumpkins and gourds -- Recipe for sweet pumpkin muffins -- Uses for pumpkin seeds -- Make a birdhouse from a gourd -- Pumpkins for the animals -- Fall crop : mushrooms -- Make a mushroom log -- Herbs -- Grow a windowsill herb garden -- Build a herb-drying branch -- Saving seeds -- Create your own seed packets -- Craft acorn cap candles -- Make soothing lip balm -- Weave a mini basket -- Make a gratitude tree.