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.

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Ill-Timed Harvest (Bowls of Cherries)

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The cherry trees are loaded. The cherry harvest is nearly over, in fact - the cherries are early this year, as is all the fruit. We ha...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Oaxaca Trip (Bad Timing)

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It's been three full years since we returned from our year in Oaxaca (for more about that trip, see my sister blog, www.newtomexican...
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Thursday, June 9, 2016

Cows and Compromise

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One of Homero's clients just traded him a newborn Jersey heifer for a complete engine rebuild on his truck. She's healthy and ador...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Shear Siliness

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I We cannot afford to hire a professional shearer to shear our lone sheep, nor would one likely agree to come out to the farm for such a sma...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Friends and Hymenoptera

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Memorial Day weekend. Old friends came in from out of town. I've been down to see them - Portland, Oregon - fairly recently, but t...
Monday, May 16, 2016

The High Cheese Season

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I took all the milk products out of my fridge to take stock. We are in the high cheese season now for sure, friends and neighbors. Mor...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Getting' Grubby

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It is only during the short window of time after the grass begins to grow and before the fruit sets on the trees that we can let the hor...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Fermentation Files (Sourdough)

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A couple of months ago, a neighbor gave me some sourdough starter that had been in her family for a very long time. The label on the contain...
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Thursday, May 5, 2016

The Fat of the Land

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What's in these jars? Honey? Apple cider? No! Lard! I finally took the big package of pork fat out of the freezer and rendered i...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Bees and Heat

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The last few days have been uncharacteristically hot, to say the least. Records were broken. In fact, records were obliterated - the ...
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