I hope you don’t think I am complaining about the snow because it is beautiful and supposedly adds nitrogen to the soil, apparently sequestering it from the atmosphere, which helps in making our air cleaner and healthier. I am not sure if toxins are added to the soil when the snow melts, but our soil […]
For the last couple weeks we have been taking advantage of the cold and snowy weather staying indoors and nearly completing our seed planning for the 2011 growing season. Even though we have snow on the ground, the temperatures outside finally got above freezing, which allowed us to spend Thursday and Friday of last week […]
Happy Holiday Readers – This prayer is for you -sung by Terri Hendrix written by Buddie and Julie Miller! May your peace be anchor in stormy times May your hope run like a river that’ll never run dry May your burdens grow light, may your worries subside This is my prayer for you. May your […]
So I was only going to list the top 10 things but there are quite a few more tasks worthy of being included on our list. It is easier accomplishing things on a farm with a short “To Do” list rather than looking over the entire farm, with all the gazillion things that need to […]
Some might think I mean the cash crop, but after our most recent endeavor we have such an appreciation for what our forefathers have done in hot smoking meat creating incredible flavors. We just smoked a couple 20 lb hams, using a Sorghum Glaze, and the flavor is AMAZING! We now have on our “To Do” […]
Carl is in our wood shop (a.k.a. yoga studio) working on building a smoker for hot smoking hams while I am in our trailer making sauerkraut. According to wikipedia, the German translation for sauerkraut is either sour herb or sour cabbage. THANKS Mom and Dad for buying Carl and I a crock for our Birthday/Christmas […]
Each year we take a couple weeks off from our farm schedule to celebrate Thanksgiving. To us it is a celebration of Gods Creation – the earth that feeds us and our family that supports us – which are among our most basic necessities thus the season to be celebrated most. My parents and sister […]
Today we are missing Sabrina, Noah, Peter, Paul and Mary. We delivered our last Wednesday CSA share of the season and worked until 8 PM Tuesday night processing veggies. We missed Sabrina’s help, but mostly her calm and relaxed personality and engaging discussions. Our discussions were mostly centered on food related issues as that is […]
Rather than Domino’s pizza benefit from our Agricultural Subsidies shouldn’t our CSA Members benefit from such subsidies for eating a healthy diet? How about Carl and I benefiting from agriculture subsidies so that we can earn at least minimum wage for growing healthy food for our community? Check out this article in the NY Times. […]