For those of you readers who eat our food or are interested in the happenings on the farm; meet the crew who will be on the farm growing the food and tending to the chickens and pigs for the 2011 production season. We will be working very hard this entire season seeding, transplanting, hoeing attempting […]
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So… According to our ‘production schedule’, about 12 days ago we were to transplant early greens, just so they will mature for our first few CSA shares of the season, but the fields were too wet meanwhile the plants kept growing and were getting so BIG and needing to go outdoors. The last week of […]
We have been making vermicompost here on the farm for about a decade. Each season we construct a new compost pile that is roughly 50 feet long by 5 feet across. We first put a layer of straw/goat poop from mucking out the goat barn. This is followed by a layer of horse manure from […]
That is how I felt after looking back over what little I’ve accomplished this past week… Carl has reason to fire me. On Thursday, all I did was assist Carl somewhat installing greenhouse end walls, tend to the little piggies and goats, clean up white pine tree branches and stack the wood. On Friday all […]
I can’t count the number of times we have done things where we later ask ourselves, “What were we thinking???” Five years ago we had our neighbor, who saws wood for a living, pile slabs of wood in a field of ours in vegetable production but where we had a terrible time dealing with fescue […]
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 […]