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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
Trying not to be wasteful
Posted in agriculture, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, greenhouse, lost skills, pastured poultry, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, wildlife, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged greenhouse, Australian Shepherds, pastured poultry, vegetable gardening, seed saving, zero mile foodshed, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, self-sufficiency, locavore on June 3, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I always feel guilty if I waste food. Whether from over planting, or being over zealous in my harvesting. I try to ask myself, “Is this better on the vine, in the ground, … , OR in the refrigerator?” The refrigerator is usually the most wasteful place for me, it costs money to run, and [...]
The year of the gradual garden
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, greenhouse, heirloom fruit, milk cow, vegetable gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, family cow, farm dogs, farm life, greenhouse, grow your own food, heirloom fruit, locavore, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed on May 31, 2008 | 9 Comments »
After the big letdown with Jetta’s calving, I was kind of glad that it rained most of the week. I just didn’t feel like planting any garden. We let Jetta lick and clean her calf, and eat the placenta. The amniotic fluid on the calf, contains natural pain inhibitors, and eating the placenta helps prolong colostrum [...]
Jetta is going into therapy
Posted in agriculture, cattle, easily amused, family cow, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, milk cow, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, wildlife, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, family cow, farm dogs, farm life, greenhouse, pastured poultry, vegetable gardening, wildlife, zero mile foodshed on May 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
She has to - she can’t deal with her owner anymore! I broke down and called the vet yesterday, and he gave me several reasons that I shouldn’t worry about the calf.
• The first baby can come at anytime.
• The bull, (whom we only know as Willy) may throw late calves.
• The owner can’t [...]
It’s not the planting
Posted in compost, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, greenhouse, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, compost, composted animal manure, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, self-sufficiency, sustainability, vegetable gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed on May 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It’s not the actual planting, it’s all the work beforehand and after, that takes so much time. Making compost, seeding, tending, irrigation planning, and soil preparation. This list could go on in more detail, but, it’s a long time and a lot of work from the idea of growing your own food, to get that food to the table. [...]
Cool to warm- the greenhouse
Posted in cattle, easily amused, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, seed saving, sustainability, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, seed saving, sustainability, vegetables, zero mile foodshed on May 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s that time of year when the greenhouse morphs from a safe haven for cool colors and foods to the hot vibrant colors and flavors of heat loving crops. The biggest challenge to planting for the summer, is getting the soil saturated beforehand. In my lottery dreams - I would rebuild my greenhouses and make them [...]
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 [...]
It all starts with a plan and a seed…
Posted in cattle, compost, family cow, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, milk cow, sustainability, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, composted animal manure, family cow, farm life, frugal living, milk cow training, sustainability, vegetable gardening on May 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Jetta Update: Still waiting…
Frozen colostrum, just is case something goes wrong.
Everything that happens here starts with a seed, part of the “master plan.” A seed can grow into a calf that may be a milk cow or beef, or a tree that makes firewood, lumber or that just makes us feel good by looking at it. These last [...]
May 5
Posted in easily amused, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, vegetables, wildlife, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, farm life, over-winter vegetables, vegetables, wildlife on May 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Still waiting on Jetta…
I’m in the garden…
Frog eggs, and one salamander egg cluster.
Pacific Tree frog tadpoles and Douglas Fir seed.
Trace, weedy garlic and potato onions.
A little nature and a whole lotta nurture.
Posted in farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, pastured poultry, zero mile foodshed, tagged greenhouse, Australian Shepherds, pastured poultry, farm dogs, Salatin-style farming, farm life, chickens on May 2, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Cornish Cross chicks in brooder - day 5. “Are we in the forest?”
I’m not a PC chicken farmer. By this I mean I don’t let my chickens free-range. There I said it! The F-word of the pastured poultry world. But, I know raising these chickens for part of our meat supply is an un-natural task. [...]
Weekend highlights and greenhouse love
Posted in compost, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, milk cow, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, composted animal manure, farm life, greenhouse, over-winter vegetables, vegetables, zero mile foodshed on April 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Despite my whining about the re-fencing, I was able to get some garden chores off of my list.
Hoping to accomplish by May 1st, weather permitting:
♣ Dig the last of the parsnips for the milk cow, and also cook some to check quality.
The cow thinks they are OK, the human thinks they look OK, despite 8″ of [...]
Food
Posted in Belly Acres (rant), farm life, tagged Australian Shepherds, farm life, healthy food on April 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My fencing bucket.
We pick up used food grade containers wherever we can, for storing chicken feed, minerals etc. Most of the time I don’t look at the labels. If we do, we are always surprised at the what the labels say. I have 55 gallon drums that held tomato paste, 7 gallon buckets that held [...]
Everybody has Cabin Fever!
Posted in compost, easily amused, farm life, wildlife, tagged Australian Shepherds, compost, weather on April 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Still snowing as of yesterday - today is clear with a temp of 23 deg F. But, once the sun is out I think it will warm considerably.
No Comment! Boys…
I’m outta here!
Add this to the What??
What a Master Gardener haughtily said to us after seeing our compost piles.
“You will HAVE to buy worms, you can’t [...]
Boop diggy po pap sappa happa doodud boodud
Posted in easily amused, farm life, greenhouse, hydraulic ram, wildlife, tagged Australian Shepherds, easily amused, farm dogs, farm life, greenhouse on March 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »
WARNING
If you don’t get silly over your dogs and your kids, you won’t find this even mildly interesting.
The title of this post is the name my daughter, (at age 4) gave our dog Belle. Other names, she went by where: Bikkie, Crapper Treek Belle, Boop Diggy, and Dog Bags. My husband and I could never remember how to say that [...]
notes from the pasture and garden
Posted in farm as desired, farm life, greenhouse, wildlife, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, farm life, grazing, greenhouse, over-winter vegetables on March 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It’s amazing what the weather does in March. Last Thursday brought cool rain, Friday gave us an inch of snow, and Saturday morning we woke up to a hard frost. So much for the grass growing. Now, Monday morning, snow again. But I know better than to be impatient. I also don’t want to complain about the [...]
Cow ?? (and cute dog pictures)
Posted in cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, tagged Australian Shepherds, family cow, homeopathy on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve gotten several questions about the cow post, via email. Thanks for the ?’s, it makes me realize how much I’m getting off topic. Although, I doubt it will actually make me stop. (Getting off topic, that is)
Homeopathy - I think I will never be done learning about homeopathy. The subject is so broad and like [...]
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