New To Farm Life

A couple moves from the big city to the countryside and starts a small farm...wait, you've heard this premise before? What? Trite? Hackneyed? But, I have goats. Really cute pictures of tiny baby goats. And cheesemaking recipes. We slaughter our own pigs and cure our own bacon! Well, that's in the master plan, anyway. Just read it, you'll see.

Showing posts with label preparedness. Show all posts

Showing posts with label preparedness. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

No More Hay

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 ...

Monday, January 16, 2012

Snow at Last (On Being Unprepared)

The "puff-room." There are about eight inches of snow on the ground right now, and it's still coming down. I don't mind sn...

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Winter Stores (A Thought Exercise)

Like many other girls, some of the first books I read entirely on my own were the Little House books. My favorite was the first one, Little ...

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Other Five Acres (The Backstory)

I apologize for the out of place, unintegrated photos - I am having issues with Blogger. The first photo is Mt Baker off the southeast, mean...

Monday, February 14, 2011

Fears About Future Food

There has been an awful lot of noise in the news lately about global food prices. The price of most basic commodities such as wheat, sugar, ...

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Kim Chee Situation (Food Storage Update)

The title of this post is a song title. A song that my talented then-fifteen year old daughter made up to commemorate the day a jar of kim c...

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Turn the Page

I was out of town for three days, and when I got back, it was autumn. The temperature dropped twenty degrees and a chilly, saturating rain f...

Monday, March 15, 2010

The Alchemy of Cabbage (A Little Knowledge Can Be a Good Thing)

we bought some kim-chee in a jar wrapped it up and threw it in the car but before we got too far Oh God, what's that smell? Have we dri...

Monday, December 28, 2009

Medical Preparation - Mediprep?

Christmas Day, I slipped on a patch of ice on my front porch and twisted my knee pretty severely. Today I finally got to the doctor and the ...

Friday, November 6, 2009

Winter Preparedness

There was a big windstorm yesterday. We didn't lose power here (there are few trees up here to interfere with the power lines) but my si...

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