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 [...]
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 [...]
Vegetable tour - progess and notes
Posted in agriculture, farm as desired, farm life, frugal farming, frugal living, greenhouse, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged farm life, feed yourself!, frugal farming, greenhouse, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed on August 16, 2008 | 12 Comments »
This post contains many pictures - dial-up beware!
Here’s what the gardens look like now in mid-August. The heat has been 102* for the last three days - I guess maybe it’s time for that mean, ol’ dry land gardener to drag out the sprinklers and soaker hoses!
We’re just been busy keeping everybody (except us) in [...]
Winter
Posted in agriculture, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, sustainability, vegetable gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, over-winter vegetables, vegetable gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed on August 4, 2008 | 12 Comments »
We spend all summer harvesting sunlight, just so we can meter it out over the dark days of late fall, and winter, and then the lean spring while waiting for the new spring growth. Grass, firewood, hay, vegetables, meat, milk, seeds, fruit and suntans. It’s no wonder we worship the sun. We long for it, and [...]
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 [...]
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 - [...]
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, [...]
Farnsworth, you’ve got weeds
Posted in agriculture, biodynamic farming, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, greenhouse, seed saving, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, farm life, greenhouse, seed saving, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed on July 16, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Poor Farnsworth, I know how he feels - I’ve got a bad case of weeds too! Some are by my own hand, which, when they present themselves, make the light bulb go on (sometimes.)
I won’t take the blame for these weedy garlic rows. Overwintering alliums are hard to keep weed free, since they span two [...]
Puppy love
Posted in agriculture, easily amused, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, personal, tagged agriculture, Australian Shepherds, easily amused, farm dogs, farm life on July 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »
This post is for dog lovers.
My baby is one today. It’s been a fun year, we had no idea who this guy was, that we brought into our lives last September. He was just #8, my husband picked him out from several pictures that the breeder emailed us.
pup # 8
A wagon load of cuties, I [...]
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