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 »
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 [...]
More rhubarb
Posted in canning, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, heirloom fruit, lost skills, recipes, scratch cooking, sustainability, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, family cow, farm cooking, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, heirloom fruit, homesteading, recipes, scratch cooking, self-sufficiency, zero on May 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
While chained to the stove today, I was able to do other tasks that might come in handy if “someone” has her calf! Ooops - I’m talking about it!
♥ Boiled a kettle of potatoes in their jackets for hash browns, these will keep in the fridge for 4 or 5 days. Very handy, just saute [...]
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 »
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 [...]
What we’re eating, the transition.
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 [...]
Some things change, some things stay the same.
Posted in farm as desired, farm life, food preservation, lost skills, zero mile foodshed, tagged farm life, heirloom fruit, wildlife on April 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A springtime herald here in Western Oregon, is the blooming of the red flowering currant, Ribes sanguineum. These plants are gorgeous, and always a surprise to see blooming in the woods, with their hot pink flowers. Easily propagated from seed or hardwood cuttings, the wild currant makes an excellent low maintenance landscape plant.
It used to be said [...]
Small fruits in our garden
Posted in canning, food preservation, greenhouse, heirloom fruit, zero mile foodshed, tagged food preservation, greenhouse, heirloom fruit, propagation, zero mile foodshed on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
No garden would be complete without fruit. Here’s a list of what grows easily here in our garden. We eat as much as we want, and just keep track of what we put by in the freezer.
BLUEBERRIES - We have 15 bushes - These are made up of plants from my husbands place when he [...]
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