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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
the woods
Posted in Belly Acres (rant), early days, farm life, woodstove cookery, tagged farm life, firewood, Pacific Northwest logging on April 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Woods - a. short for the “the logging woods.” This means more to a logger than any other word. It is a job and home both. A man going to the woods is going to work in a logging camp. Back to the woods means back to the job. b. Also used to mean uncut [...]
Muffins for the stud!
Posted in cattle, farm life, heirloom fruit, recipes, woodstove cookery, tagged farm life, quilts, recipes, scratch cooking on March 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
View out my kitchen window today.
My rootstock arrived yesterday, so when the weather breaks, I can plant it out to break it’s dormancy before grafting. I scored some cuttings I had been looking for at the Home Orchard Society scionwood exchange that was held early in March. I picked up cuttings for Interlaken seedless grape, Vern’s Brown Turkey [...]
Misc
Posted in greenhouse, woodstove cookery, tagged dogs, firewood, greenhouse on February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This was our last sunny day, so we spent it sneaking a few plantings in the greenhouse, and planting a few flats for fresh greens. Everything that has made it this far is getting tiring. I’m longing for crunchy sweet romaine! For winter salads, we have relied on chicories, buckshorn plantain, kale, chard and cress. [...]
Hump month
Posted in food preservation, winter stores, woodstove cookery on February 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Mel and Trace, our constant companions.
This is the month when I finally can relax about our winter stores. We only have at most two months of hay feeding left and it looks like we will have enough. We don’t buy hay, we just rely on what we can raise here, and put up on a [...]
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