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So it’s Spring and the chickens are sleeping in the coop and are still in the sacrificial paddock when the fence keeps them in and free-ranging when it doesn’t. I prefer to think of it as a Sacrifice Zone but that’s because I’m a nerd. The result is that we’ve got a mess of [...] My duck. In a box. It’s official. Oscar and I are the only males left on the farm. And I’m the only one that’s, for the time being, unfixed. Mr. Guy went to his new home today, ingloriously swaddled in cardboard. He was not pleased with that but I think he’ll enjoy [...] Good news, everyone! Senate Bill 5350 passed in Washington state. What does this mean? Simple. Previously, it was legal to process chickens on-farm and sell them directly to customers on the farm premises without hiring a WSDA approved slaughterhouse. Thanks to the passage of this bill, the exemption is now extended to all poultry. [...] The Curious Cook – Yogurt Begins With an Outbreak of Good Bacteria in Your Kitchen – NYTimes.com Harold McGee on making yogurt! Yum. (tags: yogurt diy homemade dairy milk haroldmcgee) Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op: 20 Household Uses For Vinegar More uses for vinegar! I love vinegar. (tags: vinegar diy cleaning household [...] I have been taken to task by more than one person for the lack of duckling photos. So here are some ducklings! Most of the photos have notes in Flickr — click through and mouse over the photo to see them. This little girl arrived with her egg tooth still attached, [...] Cliff Mass Weather blog (which you local folks should all be reading, if you aren’t) has a good post about temperatures and other weather considerations for your garden, including a link to AgWeatherNet, showing temps from various stations around the state. He says it’s going to cool off again mid-week … guess I won’t [...] Fall is the season in which you can’t find a jar to put your lunch in because they are all full of canned food. Spring is the season where the empty jars overflow their drawer and spill out over the counter because you’ve eaten all of your preserves. *dance dance dance* It’s the chicken shuffle! We had a lot of poultry in the house for the past few weeks. First we got the four new Wyandottes, who are over seven weeks old already. They have been living in the office, in two halves of a plastic dog crate, zip-tied together. Then [...] mustard greens « Eat Local Northwest Our mustard greens are starting to go insane again — here is a recipe for braised mustard greens with various spices and a small amount of rice to thicken. (tags: recipes greens mustards mustardgreens) Sunday-Dinner Chicken: Alternatives to the Cornish Cross by Harvey Ussery from the April/May, [...] The new farm, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Last weekend we went up to the new farm to see where we could start tilling. It’s hard to get a coherent picture of an expanse of grass that’s this big, but for reference, I am standing at the southwest corner of the plot. The post [...] Asparagus!, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. The asparagus is coming up! We won’t have very many spears, but I didn’t think any would come back at all after the multiple sessions of scratching the chickens gave the asparagus plot. So I am happy to see these little [...] |
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