Sunday, May 26, 2019

Homero’s Birthday 2019

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Carne asada. There’s no carne in this picture- just the traditional accompaniments of grilled nopales (cactus paddles) and green onion, alon...
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Saturday, May 18, 2019

The Fermentation Files, Spring 2019

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Spring finally sprang, and we’ve had a few weeks of beautiful weather. The grass grew all at once, the trees blossomed, and the rhubarb plan...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

A Low Ebb (Spring of Fools)

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I am not digging having a farm at the moment.  It’s wet cold and windy and disgusting and muddy and the forecast suggests it will continue l...
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Monday, April 8, 2019

......Or Does He? (Warning: Graphic Photo)

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First, please enjoy this photo of adorable, healthy baby goats frolicking in the springtime, all right with the world. This is the reality f...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Haku Loves Baby Goats

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....... or maybe he’s just checking to see if this baby is as tasty as he looks. 
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Four is Too Many

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Christmas gave birth this morning, unaided, to quadruplets. They are all up and nursing, appear to be full term and healthy, and of course ...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Scary Birds, Scary Eggs

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The turkeys have finally started laying. I guess it took them a long time to settle down, after their repeated escapes and the traumatic pro...
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Thursday, February 28, 2019

Turkey Tale and Maybe Bears

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These are our new turkeys. A neighbor was selling off her entire menagerie, and we got these pretty mixed breed ladies. She said they were l...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Snow for Days (Sno-Crastination)

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It’s a repeat of 2017 - snow up to the roof. This picture actually taken yesterday; it snowed more overnight. It’s been snowing on and off f...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Jelly Fail and Jelly Lessons

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Pepper jelly I am not an expert canner. I do a lot of water bath canning - at least, “a lot” statistically speaking. Most people don’t can ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Birthday Dinner

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It’s my birthday so I can cook whatever I want and nobody can complain. And what I want is Lima beans with ham hocks and homemade upside dow...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

Bounty from the Sea (Gleaner’s Dinner)

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This week, Gleaner’s Pantry got a donation of frozen seafood. There were a few different types of fish, but the nicest was frozen filets of...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

A Peck of Disappointing Peppers

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The Gleaner’s Pantry usually has an abundance of food after any major holiday - and this year was no exception. The day after Christmas ther...
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Monday, December 24, 2018

Christmas’s Eve 2018 (with recipes)

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Another Christmas. Another year almost gone. As my children get older, each year seems more and more precious. As in years past, I made an a...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Little Altars Everywhere

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Beltane altar My religious background is very complicated. I was born Jewish, because my mother and her mother and her mother were Jews, al...
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