Snowpocalypse is hard.

It’s getting brighter. Slowly. And the snow is starting to melt and maybe the hoophouses will uncollapse and the poultry will get to go outside and play. In the meantime, please enjoy the following reminders of summer, when you could wear shorts and dig potatoes out of warm dirt.

Handfuls of potatoes!

Happy solstice!

So let the sun rise, bring hope where it once was forgotten

Just before noon, the snow started again, and I lit several candles on the hearth and Garth put another log on the fire. We made some bloody marys with homegrown and -canned dilly beans (just you wait, we’ll learn to make vodka [...]

Recent farm meals

We had sort of a lull in the meals around here in general, after Thanksgiving. We had a lot of sandwiches and the like. But recently, we have had a few meals that were wonderfully farm-based!

Bean & veggie soup, to counteract the over-meatiness of Thanksgiving

homegrown Scarlet Emperor beans homegrown kale homegrown [...]

Only two more weeks until days start getting longer again

… I can’t wait.

Anyone have any good solstice plans?

The Contents of My Pickup Bed

1 (one) Combination brush hook/zombie pacification device 3 (three) six foot lengths of rebar 5 (five) seed starting trays 1 (one) tow rope 3 (three) 25 kg bags of organic layer mash 1 (one) 50# bag of diatomaceous earth

It seems like an interesting life, doesn’t it? It’s dark now (at four-freakin’-thirty) but I’ll [...]