Dropstone Farms

Peepers demonstrate Charlie’s Angels’ pose, originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

Thanks to Garth for the punchline!

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Gold-, silver-, silver-, and gold-laced Wyandottes, originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

New chicks!

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Probably because late February is like the dead zone, where the overwintering and stored veggies are almost gone, but it’s just barely too early to plant anything new, we have been feeling stalled in terms of meal creativity and production. But we have pulled through somehow — I thank our still-well-stocked freezer! and our surplus of potatoes that are starting to sprout — and here are some things we have been eating lately.

• Monday: Home from a Nevada trip with enough day left to put Skip-recipe pizza dough on to rise … pizza topped with homegrown pesto from the freezer, and storebought fresh mozzarella and storebought fontina.
• Tuesday: Burgers from our cow, on local buns, with oven fries made from home-grown potatoes and local market garlic.
• Wednesday: Sausages from Skagit River Ranch and Lopez Island Farm, on buns we got leftover from the Tilth Producers conference, with more oven fries.
• Thursday: The most beautiful and delicious roasted chicken I think I have ever seen in my life, spatchcocked (etymology!), from Olympic Pastured Poultry. Homegrown smashed potatoes, and grocery store organic salad.
• Friday, today, I took a day off work to work on our greenhouse, so, lunch: chicken salad made from last night’s chicken with homegrown peas from the freezer, plus mayo, lemon juice, cumin, on homemade pitas from last July. The rest of the last few of days’ oven fries. Dinner: Steak from our cow, the rest of the homegrown peas from lunch, and the rest of the smashed potatoes from last night.

The greenhouse is almost done — we just have to staple on the plastic and then make the doors.

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Sorry, as always, about the radio silence. Stuff has been remarkably busy for it being only January, er, February … oof.

We are in the process of applying for a spot to farm on some public land that’s managed by the Trust for Working Landscapes. That, plus the construction of our greenhouse, plus making up for the family-visit travel that we skipped at holiday time, has been keeping us plenty busy. I’m already tired and we haven’t even started any seeds yet (so behind already!).

Happy February. Don’t be like us — get your seeds started soon! I have a roundup of other folks’ seed starting info in the works … really.

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