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First Strawberry Harvest

This really has been the strangest spring. It rained and rained and rained all through June, leaving us berryless from our own garden and even from the farmstand. The rain has finally stopped and even though we lost the earliest berries to mold, it seems that we’re finally going to get a crop.

We don’t grow [...]

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Catching Up

After weeks of the weather and other plans conspiring against me getting caught up in the garden, 8 hours with my hands in the dirt today has me feeling much better. Plus, the nights have been so cold and the days so rainy that I’m probably not as far behind as I feel like I [...]

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Chicken Butchering 2010

Yesterday was the “great chicken harvest of 2010″. A fantastic mix of friends, family and acquaintances came together to butcher 99 broilers for our freezers. It’s amazing how much faster and more confident we’ve gotten in this process over the past two years – once we all got our “muscle memory” back, and got the [...]

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Ahhh, Asparagus

I never liked asparagus as a child. I’m not sure why, there was just something about the taste. Sometime in the past 5 or 6 years I’ve discovered it and now I wait all year for it to come into season.We like it blanched, broiled, grilled, roasted, tossed with pesto and pickled. Oh, and wrapped [...]

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Celebrating Spring

Spring arrived with a bit of a warm bluster around here. It wasn’t quite the day we’d planned, for a lot of reasons, but spring began anyway and it started with cleaning and seedlings.

While Mike turned the manure/compost pile and managed the brush burning pile, I organized seedlings and hauled chicken feed various places. So [...]

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32nd Birthday, extreme version

Delancey :: bar and kitchen

Yesterday wasn’t a big birthday, but it was my birthday nonetheless and sometimes you have to celebrate even the unexciting years in a BIG way. Hence the fun fest that was the last 4 days…

On Friday, while I was finishing up a paper at work, Jen, Jeanne and [...]

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Starting the First Seeds of 2010

I was at Target the other night picking up a couple of things and found this great box. Just what I needed to get the seeds out of the shoe boxes they’ve been living in.

In it are all of this year’s seeds, alphabetized by type. It’s always amazing to me that a) I can fill [...]

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