I thought perhaps there were enough people interested in the meat bird process that a weekly update would be good? Let me know if I’m wrong and I’ll just give you cute pictures and not all of the details…
This morning the call from the Post Office came at 7:45 am. Just after I’d gotten to […]
Category Archive for 'farm'
It’s haying time around here, actually it has been for a few weeks now. When the sun came out it was time to cut down the grass, let it dry and start baling. If there’s a better smell in the world, I don’t know what it is.
At our end of the road not many of […]
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 […]
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 […]