Sunday, October 31, 2010

Gimpy Goat and No More Milk

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This is Django. She is one of the original three goats we bought when we moved here, and now she is the only La Mancha I have (La Manchas ar...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Great Goat (Manly Food)!

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Yesterday, I made goat for dinner. Obviously, we have eaten some of our goats before. We have butchered kids two years in a row now, and eve...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Cheap Delicious Dinner (Girly Food)

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In a recent post ( There's Nothing to Eat (Pantry Management)! ) I was casting about randomly for combinations of proteins and starches ...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Blueberry Bliss

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Homero and Ivory dig holes for the blueberry bushes Peekaboo The weather has made a drastic turn for the normal - meaning the temperatures d...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

Bad Year For Apples

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Every fall since we moved up here, I've put out an ad looking for apples to make cider. I inherited a lovely old motorized, double barre...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Hovander Park's Fragrance Garden

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Yesterday was a gorgeous bright sunny day - unseasonably warm, in fact. But I loved it. For the first time in a long time I actually feel we...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

There's Nothing to Eat (Pantry Management)!

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Most of us with teenage children are probably used to them sauntering into the kitchen (at 11:30 saturday morning), opening a cupboard or th...
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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Organic Disaster (Late Season Trades)

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My longest running trade partner, Veggie/Oil Man ( see This Is What You Call Having Your Work Cut Out For You ), had a rough year. His farm ...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Kim Chee Situation (Food Storage Update)

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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...
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Caprine Incest and Inter-Species Affairs (Oh My!)

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Storm Cloud, our handsome herd sire, seems to have impregnated every doe on the farm. None of the three have gone into heat for well over a ...
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

This Is What Poor Pasture Management Leads To....

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I was trying to turn over a bit of the compost pile today - something I had no business trying to do, in light of my three fractured vertebr...
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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Canning Wrap Up (Green Tomato Chutney)

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Now it's October. We are still enjoying lovely, sunny weather, which is very nice, but it's definitely fall now. The leaves are chan...
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Friday, October 1, 2010

Serious Disappointment

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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:49:02 -0700 Subject: Good Food Awards Entry Notification Dear Aimee, Many thanks for your interest in participating...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Great, Now I'm Terrified

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On a total whim, I entered one of my cheeses (the seedy dill and caraway) into the national Good Food Awards contest ( Good Food Awards ). T...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Spinal Progress Report ("I Am Not a Weenie")

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Five days after I fell out of the hayloft and broke three vertebrae, I am actually doing okay. Much better than I would have guessed, if any...
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