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.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Cherry Tomatoes and Bubbly Cheese

It being high canning season, all the local grocery stores are clean out of cheesecloth. I had very little cheesecloth left, and I was getti...

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Trade Network Score!

Despite the recent trade network malfunction involving the Kale Fairy's newfound vegetarianism, the powers that be must still be smiling...

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Trade Network Meltdown!

So the Kale Fairy called me the other day, and said that she has decided she doesn't want a grass-raised kid after all. She can't be...

State of the Farm, Late Summer

Django eating thistles. The goats do eat thistles, but not with great enthusiasm and not nearly enough of them to make a dent in the great s...

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The Homesteading Library

Time for another installment of Crazy Aimee Prepares for the Zombiepocalypse!!! This one is fun. I've been trying to have more fun with ...

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Potato-Palooza Part Two

Second and final potato harvest. About the same as the first; more or less ten pounds. This second harvest has larger potatoes and fewer lit...

Fleece at the Framer's Market

I'm so very proud of my daughter Rowan. She has worked extremely hard this year and has succeeded in taking the raw alpaca fleece from i...

Adios Alpacas

Austen and Miguel ...

Friday, August 21, 2009

Best Cheese EVER!!!!

Oh my God, the last batch of cheese I made takes the cake for best cheese ever. It's theoretically cheddar, because I cheddared it, but ...

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Maiden Voyage

This afternoon, I barely made it home in the bug. I chugged into the driveway on fumes. When I told Homero, he said "let's put my b...

Sweat of my Brow

August. I'm a slave to the bounty of nature. Translation: I spent all day yesterday picking and processing food. I had so many green bea...

Monday, August 17, 2009

Trade Network Week Twelve

The Kale Fairy has once again spread her gossamer green wings over us and rained down chlorophyl from heaven. 1 gallon purple kale 1 gallon ...

Catch Up

Internet's been out for a while. I've been busy: Flopsy is finally just about entirely well again. Well, she was never really system...

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Husband Update

Here's what Homero's been up to lately: The Shop That Can Be Seen From Space is well advanced. Concrete poured, all the arcs up, and...

Monday, August 10, 2009

Nostalgia and Poetry

It's about eight o'clock in the evening. Often, around this time of night, or a little earlier, I sit outside with a beer and a book...

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