Recent Posts Tagged With 'garden'

• Too Late, Too Little

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 14:29 in garden, chickens, cattle, turkeys, poultry, potatoes, murphy, taters

  Our potatoes were not planted until June since we got a late start after that incident with Hank. Late start + deer who love to eat the green tops = small potatoes no matter how much manure you use and how persistent you are at weeding and hilling. ...

• Feeling Fruity

  Posted on Monday July 27th, 2009 at 06:04 in recipes, garden, cooking, mom, pie, blueberries

  Last week I took an afternoon to make some jam. Strawberries were at their cheapest price of the season and I took advantage of it. This was my first time with liquid pectin and it will be my last. The jam turned out to be a touch runny but quite tas...

• Poop is good, Foxes are not

  Posted on Sunday July 19th, 2009 at 08:39 in garden, poultry, garden "raised bed" fox

  Some folks have asked if we are offering produce this year. The combination of my accident, moving to the new farm, poor weather and poor planning made for a small garden. I am just growing enough for us, enough to freeze and eat along the way. Six t...

• Pooper Scooper

  Posted on Sunday March 1st, 2009 at 17:17 in Horses, garden, manure, 910

  We cleaned out the barn today. Looks like we will have plenty of seasoned horse manure to use/give away/sell soon!...

• More potatoes than you can count

  Posted on Monday October 27th, 2008 at 19:32 in garden, potatoes, harvest, digging+potatoes

  I was working when Gary sent this picture to my phone. He had finished digging potatoes today! This is half of them. I see a lot of spuds for supper in our future!...