Tuesday, October 25, 2022

The Rains Are Here (Hallelujah)

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Third straight day of rain, hooray.  The smoke is gone. I don’t think the forest fires are actually put out yet, but it won’t be long. The r...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Smoke and Drought

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In a typical year, the fall rains begin sometime in September. School starts, and it starts to rain within a couple of weeks. We quite ofte...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Everybody Gets a Share (Doggy Delight)

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Mercy  Haku  My husband’s insistence on keeping the gristly bits of the cow sure paid off for the dogs. They’ve been chewing on these shinb...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Meat Math, Bovine Edition (GRAPHIC)

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Not a very good picture, but that is a 40 quart stockpot, with  substantially less than half of a freshly butchered steer’s head submerged ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Farm Stand Photos

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I thought it would be nice to post some photos of local farm stands and what I appreciate about each of them. They are so varied.  Small, ne...
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Friday, August 19, 2022

Farm Stand Fun

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One of the things I love about where I live is that, recent development notwithstanding, it is still rural enough that there are dozens of ...
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Friday, July 29, 2022

Balking a Buck (Apron Antics)

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Breeding season is here.  It seems awfully early, being still high summer, but the days are getting shorter and that is the signal that sen...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

The Pantry Project (Ice Cream Edition)

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Ran across an ice cream maker at Goodwill the other day, and it reminded me that ice cream is a wonderful way of preserving the products of ...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

They’re BAAAAAAACK (Prey Animal Strategy)

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Right before bed, I decided to go out and check on the goats one more time, on the off-chance that mama Clio had found her babies. I was fai...

The End, I Think

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I’m done. Lost TWO more baby goats today, presumably to coyotes. I came home from work and Clio’s twins are gone. They were born just a week...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Project Pantry (Meatballs and Morels)

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Today’s dinner - kinda sorta Swedish meatballs but not really. I had a pound of ground venison from the gleaner’s  pantry that I wanted to ...
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Sunday, June 19, 2022

Meet the Herd

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Clio (pregnant first freshener) with her mom Bitsy.  Buck of many names. In keeping with our tradition of using weather or atmospheric or sp...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Cajeta (The Best Thing You Can Do With Goat’s Milk)

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This time of year, I am usually drowning in milk. 2022 is a bit of an anomaly, because the only two goats in milk are the two young first f...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Project Pantry (Poor Man’s Soufflé)

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Episode two of Project Pantry, my occasional feature where I describe a recent home cooked meal and detail which ingredients came from wher...
Monday, May 30, 2022

Herb Harvest 2022

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Mint is one of my favorite herbs, not only for its zingy flavor and medicinal qualities, but because it’s a hardy perennial that’s damn near...
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