One of my favorite things is to lie in bed at night and listen for the “Kerr-plink” of my canning jars sealing. The rhubarb is starting to bolt, so it was fish or cut bait. A quick inventory told me that I still had rhubarb in the freezer from last year and canned rhubarb sauce [...]
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Let the preserving begin
Posted in canning, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, heirloom fruit, recipes, scratch cooking, sustainability, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, farm dogs, farm living, food preservation, frugal living, healthy food, heirloom fruit, lost skills, preserving, recipes, self-sufficiency, winter stores, zero mile foodshed on May 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Cow doo and cow dew
Posted in cattle, compost, farm as desired, farm life, milk cow, vegetables, zero mile foodshed, tagged biodynamics, cattle, composted animal manure, farm living on March 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Every idea which does not become your ideal, slays a force in your soul; every idea which becomes your ideal, creates within you life-forces.
Rudolph Steiner
Until we started raising chickens on a commercial scale, I assumed like everyone else that chicken manure was the porsche of animal based fertilizer. Higher N numbers, right? That’s all that matters, right? I always [...]
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