Showing posts with label self-sufficiency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-sufficiency. Show all posts
Friday, September 30, 2022

Everybody Gets a Share (Doggy Delight)

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Mercy  Haku  My husband’s insistence on keeping the gristly bits of the cow sure paid off for the dogs. They’ve been chewing on these shinb...
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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Saturday, March 19, 2022

Food Finances (Project Pantry)

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For a while now, I’ve been thinking about starting a new recurring feature on the blog about cooking and eating from “the pantry,” meaning i...
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 ...
Thursday, October 7, 2021

Farmer’s Swap Meet (Fall Harvest)

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A neighbor of ours, a friend who started out as one of Homero’s clients, started a farm a few years ago. She raises medicinal plants of all ...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

The Fermentation Files, Spring 2019

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Spring finally sprang, and we’ve had a few weeks of beautiful weather. The grass grew all at once, the trees blossomed, and the rhubarb plan...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Farm Finances, Goat Edition 2018

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For my records: all four baby bucklings have been sold, surprisingly. Usually, bucklings are hard to sell. The four were sold for an aggrega...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Preserving a Peck of Peppers

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The harvest season is winding to a close. Of course it's only September, and a good deal of produce is yet to come - winter squash, more...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Canning in April (Gleaner's Pantry)

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My kitchen table was a housewarming gift from my mom. It is absolutely beautiful - twelve feet of knotty pine, seats eight comfortably o...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

The Worst Job on the Farm (Disbudding)

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Meet the littlest baby goat. Flopsy gave birth just a week or so after Polly, who lost both babies (  Sad Day (Breeding Gone Awry) ) be...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Fruitocolypse (Or Pear-mageddon)

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This spring, I was all aflutter over the lack of bees during flowering time ( What's Wrong With These Pictures? ) but the bees must ...
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

New Frontier in Goat Care (Disbudding)

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Polly's buckling, the survivor of the twins, is growing incredibly fast because he is getting all of Polly's milk. I didn't...
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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Baby It's Cold Outside (and Inside)!

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We are in the middle of one of the most prolonged cold snaps I can remember. This is the third or fourth day that the mercury hasn't ris...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Anonymous Squash (Must be August)

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When I got home from the grocery store this afternoon, I found this box of Zucchini on the porch. There must be twenty zucchini in there...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

A Productive Day (Redneck Coldframes and Unnatural Apples)

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When I woke up this morning, something was different. I wasn't sure what it was, but there was a semi-painful stabbing sensation in my e...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Brewing Up a Storm (Drinking and Driving)

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My first batch of hard cider came out great! I can't take all the credit - or even most of it - or, in fact, hardly any of it at all. I ...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Filling Up the Freezer (Great Grapes!)

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It was an insanely beautiful day today - much nicer than late October has any right to be. The sun was out in full glory, and I could feel t...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Cider, Revisited

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As I wrote in my last post, our neighbors J. and L., our pastors and friends, are leaving town. In exchange for Homero fixing up their car,...
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

The Fermentation Files (Daikon Kim chee and Grape Leaves)

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There is a reason I haven't been posting much lately, but I don't care to go into it. Suffice it to say that I have a frustrating, t...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Summer in September (Garden Wrap Up)

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Well, since winter lasted through the end of March, and the cool wet spring lasted through the end of July, I guess it's only fair that ...
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