Remember when I said try not to bale your hay if rain is pending? Because then it is hard to salvage if it gets wet… . Well, Miss Executive Decision Maker, spoke the words “Bale it!” With a shrug, DH climbed on his trusty steed and baled away. My thinking was, we hardly ever get [...]
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Wang Dang, sweet fruit tang…
Posted in agriculture, canning, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, heirloom fruit, sustainability, woodstove cookery, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, heirloom fruit, sustainability, winter stores, zero mile foodshed on August 19, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I’m dating myself again, I like Ted Nugent, too.
Ahhh, fruit what can I say? Everybody likes fruit in one form or another. We eat a lot of fruit. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, it seems like we never have enough. We buy extra fruit of different kinds that don’t grow well here, like apricots, nectarines and [...]
Apricot Jam recipe
Posted in canning, farm life, food preservation, recipes, scratch cooking, winter stores, tagged canning, farm life, recipes on August 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Here it is, Tansy, in all it’s runny glory. Be forewarned I don’t follow every rule or recipe.
So I made this one up. We rarely eat bread, and most of the “jam” I make, ends up in yogurt or on ice cream, or in apricot bars. We favor taste, over concrete-like jam. Maybe I should [...]
Just shut up and can, can, can
Posted in canning, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, lost skills, personal, redneck moments, vegetables, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, easily amused, farm life, frugal living, lost skills, redneck moments on August 2, 2008 | 16 Comments »
I love that song, Just Shut Up and Drive. I find that one in my head a lot. But, sometimes it has to be the homestead version… .
It’s no secret I like to can. Or put up food. It is comforting to me and I like the process. But, being a claustrophobic farmgirl tomboy, I [...]
I’m 8 today, according to Purina
Posted in agriculture, canning, early days, farm as desired, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, lost skills, personal, sustainability, vegetable gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, canning, farm life, personal, vegetable gardening on August 1, 2008 | 17 Comments »
If I was a medium breed dog, that is. Today is my birthday, and I’m doing something that I have done on many birthdays before. I’m canning. My dogs are sleeping at my feet, (they are 15 and 49)waiting for a bit of apricot to fly off the cutting board, and it’s raining. If it [...]
Just a snap at cherry time
Posted in agriculture, canning, early days, farm life, food preservation, heirloom fruit, tagged canning, early farm life, farm life on July 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »
My Mom, ca 1920
I found this photo in one of my Mom’s purses after she died. There was no date on it, but unlike ALL of our other old photos, something was written on this one - JUST A SNAP AT CHERRY TIME. It was such a tiny picture, measuring 1″ x 2″, it enlarged nicely to 5″ [...]
Canning
Posted in canning, early days, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, lost skills, winter stores, tagged Australian Shepherds, canning, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, winter stores on July 20, 2008 | 15 Comments »
I spent all day Saturday, canning, well not really all day, just my “spare” time not allotted for regular chores. This isn’t a how-to post, just my reflections about food preservation.
Kerr canning jar manufactured in 1957, the year I was born.
Food preservation is part of my life everyday, as it has been since I was born. Not [...]
pink as as the bing on your cherry
Posted in agriculture, canning, farm life, food preservation, winter stores, tagged agriculture, canning, farm life, food preservation, stocking up, winter stores on July 18, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Sorry, I like Aerosmith, and I’m tired of sayings like “Life is just a bowl of cherries.”
The surest way to get the fruit lady to call me and tell me the cherries will be here tomorrow, is to do this - it seems haying time is cherry canning time.
Raked hay
The cherries are late this year, [...]
some gardening, some canning
Posted in canning, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, heirloom fruit, seed saving, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, woodstove cookery, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed on June 11, 2008 | 10 Comments »
In spite of the weather, which is uncomfortable and aggravating but by no means as serious as the weather in the Midwest and East, the garden is slowly emerging.
Harris Model OP parsnips, roots for the dairy cow and for seed saving.
It’s hard to believe these little guys will be here feeding us, and the milk [...]
More rhubarb
Posted in canning, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, heirloom fruit, lost skills, recipes, scratch cooking, sustainability, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, family cow, farm cooking, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, heirloom fruit, homesteading, recipes, scratch cooking, self-sufficiency, zero on May 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
While chained to the stove today, I was able to do other tasks that might come in handy if “someone” has her calf! Ooops - I’m talking about it!
♥ Boiled a kettle of potatoes in their jackets for hash browns, these will keep in the fridge for 4 or 5 days. Very handy, just saute [...]
Let the preserving begin
Posted in canning, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, heirloom fruit, recipes, scratch cooking, sustainability, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, farm dogs, farm living, food preservation, frugal living, healthy food, heirloom fruit, lost skills, preserving, recipes, self-sufficiency, winter stores, zero mile foodshed on May 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
One of my favorite things is to lie in bed at night and listen for the “Kerr-plink” of my canning jars sealing. The rhubarb is starting to bolt, so it was fish or cut bait. A quick inventory told me that I still had rhubarb in the freezer from last year and canned rhubarb sauce [...]
First calf, not Jetta’s :), :(
Posted in canning, cattle, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, pastured poultry, recipes, sustainability, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, beef cattle, cattle, chickens, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, pastured poultry, scratch cooking, self-sufficiency on May 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Jetta update: Nothing! Next Tuesday???
First calf of the season.
I was glad to see this guy, he the first. This cow had twins last year, she did as good a job as possible, but they were considerably smaller than the singletons. When fall came I sold them at auction since they were smaller, and always hungry. Since [...]
What we’re eating, the transition.
Posted in canning, early days, farm as desired, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, greenhouse, heirloom fruit, lost skills, scratch cooking, sustainability, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, early farm life, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, heirloom fruit, lost skills, over-winter vegetables, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed on May 3, 2008 | 11 Comments »
JETTA UPDATE: Still waiting…
The garden of last year is a dim memory except for my hieroglyphic garden notes, and a few choice and not so choice tidbits.
Jonathan (old style), picked October 2007.
These were stored on the north side porch all winter. Sunlight never reaches this side of the house, so the temperature does not flucuate very [...]
Growing a child in a greenhouse
Posted in canning, farm life, food preservation, greenhouse, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged farm life, greenhouse, unschooling on March 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday was a typical NW day in winter, drizzle and cool wind from the north. My daughter has a small vegetable start business, and usually I start my tomatoes and peppers before her, since our heat mat will only hold two flats. The mat started to heat unevenly in February when I used it for greens. So, we decided to spring [...]
Warm stew on a cold day
Posted in canning, farm life, food preservation, recipes, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, farm cooking, frugality, locavore meal, scratch cooking on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I started this blog, I thought I would be posting more recipes. Everything has a life of its own, including blogs. This stew is one of those start it, and walk away kind of recipes. Let it cool down and reheat and serve, it gets better each day. This is the recipe in the original form, my substitutions [...]
The original recycling…
Posted in Belly Acres (rant), canning, farm life, food preservation, tagged canning, frugality, homesteading on March 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It used to be, that companies wanted your business. They would entice you to buy their products by giving you something to re-use, or give away a prize inside. Resources weren’t wasted and frugality was a way of life. Companies weren’t propped up by subsidies, so their bottom line was important. It was economical for [...]
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