Wordless Wednesday
October 12, 2011
An ongoing chronicle of meeting the expectations of the land…
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- Achorn Farm
- Author Mom with Dogs
- Casaubon's Book
- Colorado Farm Life
- Dancing in a Field of Tansy
- Daskam Land and Cattle
- Eatwell Farm
- Farmer's Daughter
- Farming in France
- Flash Forward 44
Food Renegade- Gold Forest Farms
- Honest Meat
- It Blows Here
- Jefferson's Daughters
- Just Another Day on the Prairie
- Katie's Beading Blog
- Kevin Kossowan
- La Ferme de Sourrou
- New Kentucky Homestead
- Northview Diary
- Pitchforking
- Slow Hand Farm
- Small Scale Grain and Pulse Production
- Soil and Health Library
- Spellcast Farm
- Starting from seeds
- Subsistence Pattern Gardens
- The Historical Sewing blog
- The Ruminant
- This Blessed Life
- Thistledog Farm
- Trapper Creek Daughter
- Two Frog Home
- Wild Roots Homestead
- Woodys Rocky Ridge
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sauerkraut! yeah! one of my favorites!
Me too!
Yummy!!!
I absolutely love sauerkraut especially with pork chops!!!
Me too again!
Aw, maaaaan! I want a kraut board! Where did you get that one?
And I sure wish I had planted my winter cabbages about a month earlier . . .
Anna, I bought it an antique store that carried NOS items, it had never been used, and the original price is penciled on the side…$2.75. I paid $60.00. New ones are around that same price.
http://www.therawdiet.com/woboxcaslmak.html
http://www.lehmans.com/store/Kitchen___Kitchenware___Countertop___Triple_Bladed_Cabbage_Cutter___1117805#1117805
These are the last of my summer cabbage, the winter ones are still sizing up
Love homemade sauerkraut – YUMMY to the TUMMY:)
Renee, I agree!
I have crock envy. Also I have cabbage slicer envy. I’ve never seen one quite like that!
Grace, we are crock poor, from quart size up to 20 gallons! 5 gallons is a nice size to deal with. My Harsch crock is busy with red kraut so I pressed this cutie into service.
See a couple of comments above for links for new cabbage slicers.
Lederhosen, anyone?
What lovely clean cabbages – mine usually come with extra protein
, slugs and woodlice!! Can you store the cabbages in nets?
mumofteenagers, those are trimmed, all the varmints are still in the garden! Since it rained the earwigs had taken up residence…not sure if any made through the process or not
These pictures need no words; lovely.
Hoping our cabbages can hang in the garden for another few weeks while I work with all the boxes of tomatoes saved from frost.
6512, I just got my last tomatoes done, and the cabbage was in danger of splitting from heavy rain despite root pruning. I had to do it!
I really wanted this to be the year I made kraut – once again, the photos are really nice. Love the new header – that Jane seems to be such a clean, ladylike girl. Or else she gets lots of brushing
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BTW, congratulations on being freshly pressed…
Auburn Meadow, I should be brushing her, but haven’t had much time lately, she keeps herself pretty slicked up. No worries yet, she has no idea what next spring will bring for her.
I got a couple of PETA threats about making that poor cow sweat like that. Silly people, she was just resting and chewing her cud
You know, that would make an interesting post.
Those folks frighten me…
I read an interesting article about the symbiotic relationship between the dew on a cow’s nose and grass. Someone made a culture from the cow’s nose dew, sprayed it on plants and they grew like crazy.
AMF, me too. As if Jane is living a terrible life…the Pampered Princess.
The rumen culture does wonders for the soil. I have always found the effect of the different manures on the garden pretty interesting. For long lasting fertility, cow manure is best. I get a chuckle when I see steer manure advertised on sale…as if anyone knows if it is from a steer, bull, heifer, or cow. When I say cow manure, I mean manure from cattle.
When I scrolled by the third pic I thought you’d got yourself a tatt
My cabbage wasn’t this year so there will be no kraut for us unless I buy some cabbage and so far it’s too expensive 
That does kinda look like my big white 5 gallon butt
Too bad about the cabbage – I saw some today at the grocery store for 25 cents a pound. There are acres of it around here, about the easiest thing to grow in this wet climate! Usually you have to dodge it in the road where it falls of the trailers!
Beautiful cabbage. Now I want some coleslaw. Oh and I haven’t had cooked cabbage in a long time.
Such beautiful photos that tell a great story without words but with emotions from memories of doing what you so gorgeously portrayed. Thank you for a lovely post.
that’s a beautiful crock
http://trainsnherons.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/one-word-one-photo-comfort/
I love your photos…hope to have more time to look them over soon. Helps me with missing the country life!
trainherons, thank you!
********SWOON******** over the crock! Stunning cabbages – absolutely gorgeous colour and texture – I can practically hear the squeaking
Which reminds, me – time for some “Bubble and Squeak” for supper… YUM!