What's happening around the farm.
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, CSA, General, Recipes, Vegetables on Mar 30th, 2012
First Mussie is setting. Our first mussie is firmly setting. Another is keeping eggs warm at night and getting ready to set firm. How can I tell? For one thing, she stays in the nest. They do need to get out once or twice a day, but anytime I look, she’s on the nest. I [...]
Posted in Bees, Chickens, ducks, geese, CSA, Recipes, Vegetables on Mar 14th, 2012
March 14, 2012 New Truck!! Tuesdays should be calmer. Last week I listed major investments we still have to make this spring. First on the list was a market vehicle. Bruce Kennedy had a nice looking AWD regular van on his lot last fall we would probably have bought but it was for one of [...]
Posted in Bees, CSA, Recipes, Vegetables on Mar 8th, 2012
Remember the Ladybugs I collected and moved out to the hoophouse? I was harvesting and found these ladybug eggs. Yippee! I’ll gladly take your nuisance ladybugs and give them a good home. Sorry the photo is blurry – learning to use a cell phone camera with no close up features. Monday afternoon we actually had [...]
Posted in Bees, Chickens, ducks, geese, CSA, Recipes, Vegetables on Feb 22nd, 2012
First CSA plantings. Up to now all the planting and transplanting has been for the winter farmers market. The salad mixes we are planting now will be long gone before June. In contrast, the spinach we are harvesting was planted last September 25. This week we started onions, leeks, and tomatoes for the CSA. The [...]
Folks ask what we do this time of you, so here is a recap of last week: What a gorgeous day Monday a week ago was. The plants have grown! I cleared part of the hen house out and took 14 5-gallon buckets of bedding (peat moss and manure) down and put in the tomato [...]
Well, on Wednesday, but it has felt like officially fall. That spurs me on to both wrap some things up and start others. The potatoes are all in the walk-in cooler and the area seeded to triticale and Austrian pea cover crop. We will have plenty of potatoes, but it is only about half a [...]
Posted in Recipes on Apr 6th, 2011
I just got an IPhone. Am wishing I had gone with a Droid, but that is another story. Anyway, trying to get things working, and just found a $5 app that gives you access to Marc Bittman’s How to Cook Everything cookbook. If I get this phone working well, I will definitely by it. The [...]
Posted in CSA, General, Recipes, Vegetables on Mar 24th, 2011
The Local Harvest newsletter just came in my email and had a great little story. I will quote the story here, but they go on to say that drenching things in sauces and ranch dressing may not be the end point, but it also may be better than what you are currently eating so consider [...]
Posted in Recipes on Jul 25th, 2010
Several have asked what to do with the basil. They have a recipe in mind that calls for a sprig or two, but these are good sized bunches you are getting. What can they do with the rest? I chop it up and put it in a pint jar, then cover with olive oil. Use [...]
Posted in CSA, Recipes, Vegetables on Nov 5th, 2009
Criminy, there are still lots of things I wanted/needed to get done in September and October that aren’t done yet. And I’d really like to clean and put away the things we are done with for this year, before they are frozen to the ground or under snow (snow that melts and makes for very [...]
