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 »
It all runs downhill
Posted in farm life, food preservation, scratch cooking, winter stores, tagged farm life, food preservation, winter stores, zero mile foodshed on August 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Finally, the tomatoes are getting some color. Still not enough to preserve yet, but hopefully soon… . At least enough to eat all we want.
My daughter is now old enough to do some preserving on her own, and she gets real interested if it’s something she actually grew. Sometimes I pay attention, sometimes [...]
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 [...]
Ding Dong, the witch is dead
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm life, personal, tagged cattle, family cow, farm life, personal on August 18, 2008 | 12 Comments »
No I didn’t mean me, but Jetta. Here is another one of those posts that will either cause readers to shake their heads in disgust or in agreement.
I would venture a guess, if you have owned any kind of livestock for more than 5 years, you might know where I’m coming from. Less, than that - [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Who put the ape in apricot?
Posted in easily amused, farm life, frugal living, personal, recipes, redneck moments, tagged easily amused, farm life, personal, recipes on August 5, 2008 | 17 Comments »
When I was little, I was always impatient with Fred Flintstone because when the cat threw him out for the night, he pounded on the door to have Wilma let him in, when he could have easily climbed in the window, because there was NO GLASS! I always dreamed that I would marry someone like Roger [...]
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 [...]
Apricot Jam recipe
Posted in canning, farm life, food preservation, recipes, scratch cooking, winter stores, tagged canning, farm life, recipes on August 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Here it is, Tansy, in all it’s runny glory. Be forewarned I don’t follow every rule or recipe.
So I made this one up. We rarely eat bread, and most of the “jam” I make, ends up in yogurt or on ice cream, or in apricot bars. We favor taste, over concrete-like jam. Maybe I should [...]
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 [...]
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