I’m always amazed by the sheer volume of raw food it takes to make sauce of any kind. Our Yellow Transparent apples finally started to ripen. I didn’t get them thinned (like I ever do) so they are small to medium, and plentiful. Usually I like to make chunky applesauce, but I don’t like to peel [...]
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Apples and milk
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, food preservation, heirloom fruit, milk cow, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged food preservation, family cow, homeopathy, farm life on August 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I guess it’s summer…
Posted in agriculture, biodynamic farming, cattle, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, recipes, scratch cooking, sustainability, vegetables, wildlife, zero mile foodshed, tagged farm life, recipes, scratch cooking, wildlife on August 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The swallow’s favorite vantage point. Every morning they land here on the shop roof, to warm up and plan their day. The recent rains have caused a flush of insects, so they have been busy. We counted 120+ of barn swallows and violet-green swallows. It’s not unusual to see 50 or so swooping around the [...]
Baa Damn You
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, lost skills, tagged agriculture, cattle, farm life, lost skills on August 20, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Have you seen the movie, Babe? When the sheep tell Rex, the gruff Border Collie their password, they say Baa-Ram-Ewe, and our daughter who was small at the time, thought the sheep were saying BAA-DAMN-YOU! Now we aren’t really sure why she would think such a thing ;) - but it was quite comical at the [...]
Ding Dong, the witch is dead
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm life, personal, tagged cattle, family cow, farm life, personal on August 18, 2008 | 12 Comments »
No I didn’t mean me, but Jetta. Here is another one of those posts that will either cause readers to shake their heads in disgust or in agreement.
I would venture a guess, if you have owned any kind of livestock for more than 5 years, you might know where I’m coming from. Less, than that - [...]
Chestnuts and the $2.00 farm gate
Posted in agriculture, cattle, farm life, frugal farming, frugal living, lost skills, sustainability, tagged cattle, farm life, fencing, frugal farming, lost skills, sustainability on August 8, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Look around your property and find the tree that provides you with the most, for the least amount of inputs on your part. This tree doesn’t necessarily have to be something you paid a large sum of money for, nor does it have to be particularly showy. When you find this tree, plant as many of [...]
The garden is late, and the deer are early!
Posted in Belly Acres (rant), agriculture, cattle, farm life, wildlife, tagged Add new tag, agriculture, Belly Acres (rant), farm life, wildlife on July 31, 2008 | 21 Comments »
WARNING !! RANTING AND A DISTURBING PHOTO OF FARM LIFE AHEAD, PROCEED WITH CAUTION.
When we went up to the garden Monday to pick the shell peas, and pull the garlic, this is what we found - what was left of our 90′ strawberry row. We now have 75 plants that look just like this. My daughter had [...]
I promise not to post until…
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, milk cow, wildlife, tagged family cow, cattle, farm life, agriculture, poultry on July 29, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I properly answer all my comments for the last few days. I’m canning apricot jam tonight and probably tomorrow. It’s actually raining. Yeah! Those cigarette butts the tourists toss out are making me nervous.
I have plenty to say about the garden etc, but that can wait. Here are a few pics until then.
Napping turkeys - [...]
Honky tonk bulldonkadonk!
Posted in agriculture, cattle, easily amused, farm life, redneck moments, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, cattle, easily amused, farm life, redneck moments, zero mile foodshed on July 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Linda wanted to see Henry’s other asset, so here it is.
That is definitely a standing rump roast! Nice dapples there you!! When the cows are slick in the summer, their dapples look like maple leaves, instead of round like horses dapples.
Naptime.
I’m trying to get my hay post done, and I have to do an anniversary [...]
Mad heifer disease
Posted in agriculture, cattle, farm as desired, farm life, redneck moments, rotational grazing, sustainability, tagged agriculture, beef cattle, cattle, farm life, redneck moments, rotational grazing on July 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »
This bruiser arrived by Bull Express on Tuesday. His name is Henry.
The steers like to hang out with bulls, and try to pick up a few pointers.
Henry will be here for 6 weeks, which will allow him to cover the cows through two heat cycles. If a cow doesn’t breed back in two heat cycles, [...]
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Posted in Belly Acres (rant), agriculture, cattle, farm life, lost skills, sustainability, tagged agriculture, Belly Acres (rant), farm ecosystems, farm life, sustainability, wildlife on July 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This past week we did the hay at a friends farm about 10 miles away. We do this as a favor to our friends, who need the grass cut in their field to keep the land open and to alleviate the fire danger. The hay is on the light side, but on the plus side [...]
High impact, low impact
Posted in agriculture, cattle, electric fencing, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, rotational grazing, sustainability, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, cattle, farm dogs, farm life, rotational grazing, Salatin-style farming, sustainability on July 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I want to leave a light effect on this land that I have had the great fortune to grow up on. To do that, I have to understand when I have to be hard and when I have to be soft. Usually, I have to do both at the same time. Finesse is required to [...]
Trying to avoid chore time burnout
Posted in agriculture, cattle, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, pastured poultry, rotational grazing, sustainability, zero mile foodshed, tagged pastured poultry, homesteading, farm life, sustainability, pigs, daily farm life, clean water for the farm, farm chores, chore savers on June 26, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Chores on the farm can seem never ending. Trying to decide where to take shortcuts involves many factors, depending on what the task is. Joel Salatin says to try to keep daily chores per person to less than 4 hours. That is hard to do - but that 4 hours does seem like the magic [...]
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