Posted in agriculture, canning, early days, farm life, food preservation, heirloom fruit, tagged canning, early farm life, farm life on July 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »
My Mom, ca 1920
I found this photo in one of my Mom’s purses after she died. There was no date on it, but unlike ALL of our other old photos, something was written on this one - JUST A SNAP AT CHERRY TIME. It was such a tiny picture, measuring 1″ x 2″, it enlarged nicely to 5″ [...]
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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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, [...]
Posted in early days, easily amused, farm life, frugal living, personal, scratch cooking, tagged early farm life, farm life, frugality, recipes, scratch cooking, unschooling on May 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I just wanted to share a few recipes that keep the father here, in a good mood.
Here is a recipe for Rhubarb Sherbet that utilizes a base that can be frozen during times of abundance and then made up as needed. This is a popular recipe at our house, on Father’s Day.
RHUBARB SHERBET from Cooking [...]
Posted in agriculture, early days, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, lost skills, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, wildlife, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, early farm life, family cow, farm life, frugality, grow your own food, over-winter vegetables, seed saving, self-sufficiency, vegetable gardening on May 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
That is what our garden is - just your basic old vegetable garden. Full of workhorses and not too many gourmet delicacies. It feeds us year-round though, but you won’t find low performers in our garden more than a year, or two at most.
Before the rain on Tuesday, we planted 50# of potatoes. I plant the [...]
Posted in early days, farm life, tagged early farm life, farm history, farm life on May 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
1913
That’s my Mom in the poke bonnet. She was born in 1911, so I’m guessing this is about 1913.
It’s funny to see her in a hat, she never wore one for any occasion that I can remember.
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. It has been such a cold spring, the rhodie at the schoolhouse isn’t blooming yet [...]
Posted in canning, early days, farm as desired, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, greenhouse, heirloom fruit, lost skills, scratch cooking, sustainability, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, early farm life, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, heirloom fruit, lost skills, over-winter vegetables, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed on May 3, 2008 | 11 Comments »
JETTA UPDATE: Still waiting…
The garden of last year is a dim memory except for my hieroglyphic garden notes, and a few choice and not so choice tidbits.
Jonathan (old style), picked October 2007.
These were stored on the north side porch all winter. Sunlight never reaches this side of the house, so the temperature does not flucuate very [...]
Posted in early days, farm life, tagged early farm life, farm kids on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
More snail mail.
Hand delivered - from my dad to his sister - From your brother, Lloyd To: Tacy
circa 1912
Hand delivered - from my uncle to his friend from school - circa 1912
Dear George, How are you by this time? Am fine. This is the only card I have. Pretty early for Easter. As Ever, Fritz
Hand delivered [...]
Cinnabar moth larvae eating Tansy Ragwort