Showing posts with label homesteading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homesteading. Show all posts
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...
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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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...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

High Cheese Season 2020 (Making Do)

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            A middle stage in the making of cheddar  In last week’s post on preserving, I forgot to include cheese. Cheese is kind of the wh...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Preserving Log (Early Summer Edition)

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I’ve fallen behind on my blogging, I’m afraid. Since the stay-at-home order was lifted early last month, I’ve been busier than a one-armed ...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Scary Birds, Scary Eggs

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The turkeys have finally started laying. I guess it took them a long time to settle down, after their repeated escapes and the traumatic pro...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Preserving Log 9/18

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Arrived home from Oaxaca ten days ago. In that time we had a lot to do to get the kids ready for school- go shopping for supplies and clothe...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Making Up for Lost Time (Mabon Again)

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We arrived home late the night before last. Or perhaps more accurate to say, early yesterday morning. We finally opened the door to our home...
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Friday, April 15, 2016

Cheese Season Solutions (Practicality vs. Purism)

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Cheese season will be short this year. We are leaving for Oaxaca June 24th, and at that point we will let the does dry off, since Rowan ca...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

State of the Farm (Spring Equinox)

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grey spring I know, I'm a few days late on the equinox. That's okay, I feel like I'm a few days late on everything the...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Welcome Sheep

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The little brown blob in the lower left foreground of this picture is a young Jacob's sheep . She is about four or five months old, ...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

The Goat Who Wouldn't Kid (When to Butt Out)

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Iris, above, is the first goat I bought when I moved here. I was hurting for goats; I couldn't wait. Goats, as far as I was concerne...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

No More Hay

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We are out of hay. We still have a need for hay - it will be another month before it dries out enough that I can put the animals out on the ...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Buck Up (Doe Down)

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Yesterday morning, I sent Rowan out to feed the animals because my knee had slipped out of joint as I tried to put on my boots. There w...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Spud 'Speriment (Potato Poetry)

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Today I was cleaning out the kitchen drawers. There's a big drawer on the bottom, lined with brown paper bags, that I use for potatoes a...
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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Berry Abundant Berries (Child Labor Pays)

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Someday, I hope to can something without injury. Today, I canned ten half-pint quilted jelly jars of blueberry jam, and as usual, burned...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Fish Tale (Canning Salmon)

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One of the many blessings of living where I live is the seasonal availability of the world's greatest fish, the noble King Salmon. Sal...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Turkey Trade

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Over the years, we've benefitted greatly from trading goods and services with our neighbors (and also with the random people who read...
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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Tree Trouble (What the Hell is Wrong With These Plums?)

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Sometimes I despair of the orchard. I really do. There are so many factors conspiring against trees here; some of them natural, others d...
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