Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Lamest Farm Ever (Ethical Questions)

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This place is pathetic. Seems like everywhere I look, I see an injured animal. The new Jersey calf with her droopy broken ear, limping a...
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

State of the Farm (Mid-Autumn)

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Last week we enjoyed a long stretch of beautiful fall weather. Temperatures reached the low sixties on a couple of days, and it was dry enou...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Meet the Cow (Chalk One Up for the Husband)

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Homero has a friend who works at a local dairy. At any given time they have a few hundred cows and dozens of calves. Yesterday Homero g...
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Monday, October 7, 2013

Scavenge City (Gleaner's Pantry)

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After moaning and wailing yesterday in this space about how hard it is to feed everybody, today I received an amazing bounty of free foo...
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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Feeding the Ravening Hordes

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It's amazing to me what adding just two teenage mouths means to the family food budget, and to the amount of time I spend cooking. In ad...
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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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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Doing the Can-Can

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Just popping up for a bit of air between canning sessions. I'm extremely pleased with my pantry, considering that we didn't get back...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

A Buckling Named Boob

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It looks like breeding season will be delayed this year. This adorable little guy just won't be ready for a few months yet. Breeding...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Busy as a Bee

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The first week of school is over and we are all still alive. My own children were chomping at the bit to get back to school after a year of ...
Monday, September 2, 2013

My Daughter's Garden

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While we were gone in Oaxaca last year, my daughter Rowan and her boyfriend Phil decided to use the greenhouse and enlarge the garden a...
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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Berry Abundant Berries (Child Labor Pays)

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Someday, I hope to can something without injury. Today, I canned ten half-pint quilted jelly jars of blueberry jam, and as usual, burned...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Imaginary Cows

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My husband wants a cow. He's wanted a cow for years now. I do not want a cow, which is why we don't have one. Yet. I don't se...
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Pear Problems (Iris)

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Iris loves to eat the hard, unripe pears from the pear tree. She just has a little trouble getting them down. 
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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