The first round of broccoli is in full swing and wow are we about to get buried in it. I’m going to be blanching and freezing like there’s no tomorrow before the long weekend is over. I’d like to believe we’ll keep up, but we won’t, and so we may as well put it away […]
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Garden Update
Posted in farm, growing challenge, gardens on Jun 30th, 2008
I thought maybe it was time for another full garden review since it’s been a full month since the last one. Things are going strong and seem to be weathering the heat just fine. Which is nice to see and means that I’ve been getting the watering right. I’ve been trying to water deeply and […]
One Local Summer - Week 4
Posted in farm, one local summer, locavore, gardens, eat local on Jun 29th, 2008
It actually went even hotter at one point today, up to about 93, but I didn’t have time to take a photo at that point. I’m not a hot weather girl, but somehow it didn’t bother me as much as usual - it was hot yes, but not “oh my god I’m melting hot”.
Maybe it’s […]
I realized the other day that it’s been a while since I talked chicken. Or at least since the news wasn’t bad. If you didn’t already know better you might think we didn’t have hens!
So last night while I was working in the hen shack I took a bunch of photos of the flock. It […]
There are hard lessons to learn in life and sometimes they come and bite you in the ass right when you think things are going along swimmingly. Today we lost 3 of the chicks - Molly the white banty, a light brahma and a golden laced wyandotte.
Event though our nice next door neighbor had warned […]
This morning I screamed like a little girl. Or maybe shrieked is a better word?
For the record I am not afraid of mice, growing up on the family farm field mice in the grain bin were a fact of life. But somehow being confronted with one this morning while running late and wearing my dress […]
I’m not feeling very interesting or inspired tonight. But as I was sitting in my favorite seat in the house talking to colleagues in Singapore, I thought perhaps you’d like to know what I see?
The seat is the new couch in our living room, it rests just below the front window which looks out across […]
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