Showing posts with label trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trade. Show all posts
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 ...
Friday, August 7, 2020

Miracle Milk (Goats are Great)

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A neighbor of mine, S., recently had her first grandchild. Her daughter gave birth to a beautiful little boy. Although everything seemed fin...
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Sunday, June 10, 2018

Long Live Hippies (Trade Network ‘18) S

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We are currently getting about three gallons of milk a day from my two best dairy goats, Polly and Christmas. I have been making cheese two...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Plum Conundrum and Pear Perplexity

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In recent days, as I took Haku outside in the evenings to run around in the orchard,  I've noticed that a couple of trees in the orc...
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Sunday, March 6, 2016

What's Growing in my Kitchen (the Fermentation Files)?

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There's a new bookstore in town, and when I went in to check it out, I found this irresistible book: Much more than a recipe bo...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Spring Swaps

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Spring is a good season for trading. I have eggs, milk, and cheese, and am on the prowl for anything to make gardening easier, as I get stif...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Homero's New Toy (the Craigslist Chronicles)

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A few weeks ago, Homero made a spectacular find on Craigslist - a Case loader for under a thousand dollars, more or less in running con...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Let the Harvest Start (Ingenuity)

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Today has been a food preservation frenzy, and it isn't over yet. In the morning, I took five pounds of assorted cheese, a small jar of ...
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Saturday, June 7, 2014

New Trade Route

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The trade network has been pretty much dormant since I got back from Mexico. We made that one great trade last summer - a baby goat for ...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

Double Buck (the Craigslist Chronicles)

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Sometimes it seems like I spend way too much time on Craigslist. I've toned it down since the early days, when I would spend hours s...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Butchering Season (the Breakdown)

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Fall is butchering season. The grass is dying back and losing nutrition, and the meat animals are as fat as they are going to get. W...
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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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Friday, April 6, 2012

It Figures

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Why is it that every time I get some good egg trades going, the hens mysteriously quit laying? Since my last post on Monday ( Trade Network ...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Trade Network 2012 (Craigslist Chronicles)

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Every year I have to start from scratch on the trade network, it seems. People move away, Like Veggie/Oil Man and the Kale Fairy did, or peo...
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Great Hen Giveaway (It's Not His Fault)

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It's not hard to tell roosters from hens, not when they are full grown. Here; I'll show you. This is a hen. Hens are female. They la...
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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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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Good News, Bad News

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I'm sad, because my pastor is moving across the country to be some other church's pastor. Pastor L. and her husband J. are friends ...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Second Annual September Swap Meet and Cider Press

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Last year's September Swap Meet was a flop - but partly that was because I broke three vertebrae three days before the event and couldn...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Double Piglet!

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We acquired two new piglets yesterday. Here they are: two handsome girls, a cross between a Large Black Hog boar and a Tamworth Sow. These g...
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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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