Posted in growing challenge, farm, locavore, gardens, eat local, EatLocalChallenge, canning on Oct 2nd, 2008
I’ve really been enjoying sneaking into other people’s pantries the last week. Not only to see what other people are putting up, but to see what else they store in there.
I thought I’d like to join in the fun. Our pantry isn’t as full as you might expect, but then most of the veggies and […]
Posted in growing challenge, locavore, gardens, EatLocalChallenge, eat local on Oct 1st, 2008
Tonight is a bit of a schizophrenic night.
It marks the beginning of the October Eat Local Challenge and I wanted to make something as 0 miles as we could get.
So I harvested the first of the ripe paste tomatoes (poly tunnel is the answer!) and combined with them with leeks, bell pepper, thyme, rosemary and […]
Posted in growing challenge, locavore, gardens, eat local on Sep 29th, 2008
A few of you have asked how we’re storing our potatoes. Well, it’s pretty unsophisticated. This is it, a pile of burlap bags on the floor in the tack room.
There they are sharing space with some fencing and Mike’s welder. The welder could use a new home, but it’s heavy and I’m lazy, so there […]
Some people wait until spring to get their houses in order, but not us. We always seem to do a big purge and organize right around now. In the past it’s been focused around getting the house in order, and maybe organizing the garage, but this year it started with getting the sheds set for […]
Posted in farm, growing challenge, locavore, gardens, eat local on Sep 27th, 2008
I say Wow! we have a lot of potatoes. And I mean a lot.
It’s hard to tell weight since we’re using the super scientific method of “feels like 60 pounds, don’t you think?” to weigh. But there’s a lot of potatoes in the tack room in the barn. There are a total of 6 burlap […]
Posted in harvest, growing challenge, personal, gardens, eat local on Sep 22nd, 2008
Fall has arrived here with a vengeance, today dawned crisp, clear and cold. Last night I got my first weather alert, letting me know that the snow level was moving down to 3500 feet. Not low enough to affect us, but low enough to remind me that the first frost isn’t that far away.
Mike and […]
Posted in personal, locavore, gardens, eat local on Sep 21st, 2008
Okay, I’ve recovered from my momentary freak out about never getting it all done. It’s still not all done, but I’m just going to keep moving, slow and steady, until the last of the heavy lifting is done.
This weekend was busy but relaxing at the same time. We may have worked hard, but we also […]