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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘lost skills’
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
When art imitates life or Nothin’ better to do
Posted in easily amused, farm life, lost skills, personal, quilting, wildlife, tagged embroidery, farm life, lost skills, personal, quilting, wildlife on July 9, 2008 | 13 Comments »
When I take note of my surroundings I usually have a ulterior motive…
Juvenile Pileated woodpecker
Wild Ginger
Commom Mullien
Cleavers
Damsel fly
Rare Maninja flower ( I made this one up)
Embroidery is the first needlework skill I learned as a child. I made this quilt as a gift for a friend to mark her graduation from medical school. To make [...]
July 4th
Posted in early days, easily amused, farm life, lost skills, redneck moments, tagged early days, easily amused, farm life, lost skills, redneck moments on July 4, 2008 | 10 Comments »
As promised…
Black walnut hub, cherry spokes.
Tool kit - fuses, and charges.
Loading the charge. 4 ounces, RS - FFG equivalent.
Tamping the charge.
Skull and crossed pipe wrenches.
Lit fuse.
Target - 100 yards.
One snooker ball sized hole. Three ball in the side pocket!
Looking back at the cannon.
The smoking gun.
I stayed at the house with the dogs, and got some work [...]
Not for the squeamish…
Posted in agriculture, compost, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, lost skills, pastured poultry, sustainability, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, butchering, farm dogs, farm life, homesteading, lost skills, pastured poultry, stocking up, winter stores on June 28, 2008 | 23 Comments »
WARNING - LOTS OF BLOOD AND BODY PARTS WILL BE SHOWN AFTER THE SERENE VIDEO and the first 5 pictures.
Last supper - really it is last lunch.
Here is what those adorable chicks I showed you 8 weeks ago, turned into. Grass and grain eating and pooping fertilizing fools. I’ve just moved them to fresh grass, [...]
While waiting
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm life, frugal living, milk cow, recipes, sustainability, winter stores, tagged family cow, farm life, recipes, frugal living, lost skills, self-sufficiency, herbal medicine on May 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Cajoling Jetta has become a weekly chore. I have tried new lead ropes, made by DH especially for her in her favorite color. New bridge washers on her cross ties, so she won’t hurt me herself fighting me as I try to milk her for the first time, etc. Nothing has worked. News today from [...]
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 [...]
Rigid yet flexible
Posted in cattle, farm as desired, farm life, tagged cattle, farm life, lost skills, quilting, rotational grazing, Salatin-style farming on April 24, 2008 | 8 Comments »
This post will be about fencing - but it also describes my life, and how I need to correlate where I have been, to where I am now. It is so true what they say about fencing being a physical barrier or a psychological barrier. I grew up with barb wire fencing and I still [...]
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