Showing posts with label farm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farm. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Change of (Beverage) Seasons

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It’s been a few years since we last broke out the old cider press. This is the same machine my family used to press apples when I was a litt...
Friday, April 14, 2023

King Kong Squash

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This gorgeous, enormous Blue Hubbard squash was given to me by a neighbor. I don’t know for sure if she grew it herself but she’s quite a ga...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Farm Stand Fun

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One of the things I love about where I live is that, recent development notwithstanding, it is still rural enough that there are dozens of ...
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Thursday, July 14, 2022

They’re BAAAAAAACK (Prey Animal Strategy)

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Right before bed, I decided to go out and check on the goats one more time, on the off-chance that mama Clio had found her babies. I was fai...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Meet the Herd

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Clio (pregnant first freshener) with her mom Bitsy.  Buck of many names. In keeping with our tradition of using weather or atmospheric or sp...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Project Pantry (Poor Man’s Soufflé)

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Episode two of Project Pantry, my occasional feature where I describe a recent home cooked meal and detail which ingredients came from wher...
Monday, May 30, 2022

Herb Harvest 2022

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Mint is one of my favorite herbs, not only for its zingy flavor and medicinal qualities, but because it’s a hardy perennial that’s damn near...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Coyote Blues (Adios Cosmos)

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I thought we were going to have a great year for baby goats. Last year was just terrible, we lost three out of four babies. But this year, ...
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Sunday, April 3, 2022

Spring Chickens

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We got some baby chicks. Now that we have a coop for chickens so close to the house - right inside the fenced backyard - and can be reasonab...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Monster Squash 2021 (Count on Cucurbits)

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My mother used to say there were only two things for certain in this world - death and taxes. But I know there is another - that every year ...
Monday, August 16, 2021

Meet the Greengage (Bears and Plums)

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                                   When we first moved here, in 2007, I knew the first thing I wanted to do was plant some fruit trees. The...
Friday, May 7, 2021

Animals Behaving Badly (Escapes and Attacks)

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We had an exciting morning around here. It started off nicely enough; I was sitting at the kitchen table around nine am having coffee with m...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Notes from the Year of the Pandemic (Spring Equinox, 2021)

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  So far, spring this year is cold. There was a week of warm sun sometime in early March - there usually is - that tempted me to start shove...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Just Cute Goat Pictures

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Paloma and Flopsy’s baby boy. I can’t decide who is cuter.  My goat-totin’ man, totin’ Bitsy and Bootsy, Christmas’ two doelings.  Hope bei...
Friday, May 15, 2020

DQ59 - Baby Goats!

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Paloma holding Bootsy, one of Christmas’s twin doelings  Christmas cleans up Bitsy, her other twin doeling. Christmas was the first to pop,...
Friday, March 20, 2020

DQ4 - Garden Notes

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I haven’t bothered with a garden in years - beyond my perennials; rhubarb, raspberries, fruit trees - because I can get unlimited free prod...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

State of the Farm: Pandemic Edition

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The girls amuse themselves at home with Henna freckles  DQ2 - day two of “quarantine.” We aren’t officially quarantined, of course, and not ...
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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Paloma’s Pigs

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Some years we raise a couple of pigs, and some years we don’t. The decision whether or not to get a pig in any given year is based on a numb...