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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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 [...]
Making do
Posted in farm life, lost skills, recipes, scratch cooking, vegetables, wildlife, zero mile foodshed, tagged farm and forest, farm life, lost skills, recipes, scratch cooking, vegetables, zero mile foodshed on August 14, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I grew up eating out of our garden and orchard. Store bought didn’t happen very often. So, I don’t have any qualms about eating less than perfect looking food. With food prices on the rise and more people gardening, people will have to get used to blemished food. (Pesticides aren’t good for you, and sometimes it is easier to just [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When art imitates life or Nothin’ better to do
Posted in easily amused, farm life, lost skills, personal, quilting, wildlife, tagged embroidery, farm life, lost skills, personal, quilting, wildlife on July 9, 2008 | 13 Comments »
When I take note of my surroundings I usually have a ulterior motive…
Juvenile Pileated woodpecker
Wild Ginger
Commom Mullien
Cleavers
Damsel fly
Rare Maninja flower ( I made this one up)
Embroidery is the first needlework skill I learned as a child. I made this quilt as a gift for a friend to mark her graduation from medical school. To make [...]
July 4th
Posted in early days, easily amused, farm life, lost skills, redneck moments, tagged early days, easily amused, farm life, lost skills, redneck moments on July 4, 2008 | 10 Comments »
As promised…
Black walnut hub, cherry spokes.
Tool kit - fuses, and charges.
Loading the charge. 4 ounces, RS - FFG equivalent.
Tamping the charge.
Skull and crossed pipe wrenches.
Lit fuse.
Target - 100 yards.
One snooker ball sized hole. Three ball in the side pocket!
Looking back at the cannon.
The smoking gun.
I stayed at the house with the dogs, and got some work [...]
Not for the squeamish…
Posted in agriculture, compost, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, lost skills, pastured poultry, sustainability, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, butchering, farm dogs, farm life, homesteading, lost skills, pastured poultry, stocking up, winter stores on June 28, 2008 | 23 Comments »
WARNING - LOTS OF BLOOD AND BODY PARTS WILL BE SHOWN AFTER THE SERENE VIDEO and the first 5 pictures.
Last supper - really it is last lunch.
Here is what those adorable chicks I showed you 8 weeks ago, turned into. Grass and grain eating and pooping fertilizing fools. I’ve just moved them to fresh grass, [...]
The bounty of blogging
Posted in agriculture, biodynamic farming, cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, lost skills, personal, recipes, vegetable gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged family cow, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed, cattle, farm life, early farm life, daily farm life on June 25, 2008 | 11 Comments »
If I have a dismal season in the garden or hay department this year, maybe I can eat my words!
Blogging makes me feel even more accountable about what I say and do, here are some examples of things I’ve said of late that fit in the category of “DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO…”
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Water - harvesting, using, and protecting
Posted in Belly Acres (rant), agriculture, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, hydraulic ram, lost skills, sustainability, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, clean water, farm life, frugal living, hydraulic ram pumps, self-sufficiency on June 22, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Living in an area known for it’s abundant rainfall, and clean water, you might think we have a blasé attitude about water usage. We don’t. Maintaining our own watershed and water supply is perfect insurance that we work very hard to NOT waste water. Most of the hubbub in the news is about peak oil - [...]
Some gardening, finally…
Posted in agriculture, early days, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, lost skills, personal, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged early farm life, farm life, personal, seed saving, subsistence agriculture, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed on June 20, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Sometimes I forget I why I garden. When someone says to me they garden, I automatically assume that they mean vegetables. Most of the time before this latest feeding frenzy brought on by current issues that I won’t go into in this post, they would mean flowers mostly. My gardening has evolved from 2/3 vegetables, [...]
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