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We went to the feed store yesterday and as soon as she saw us, one of the employees said “oh!!” and went running back to the back of the store to get something. She emerged with a little notecard with the name and number of someone who’s trying to rehome her friend’s turkeys and [...] Recently at the WAYFC meeting, while touring Becky‘s backyard farm and meeting her bunnies and chickens, she mentioned that they weren’t laying much because of the short days, and I commented that I am always surprised at how quickly their laying picks up after the Solstice. There were many murmurs of assent, including someone’s [...] (Yeah, “cheese” is a verb now; why do you ask?) In late November, I made my first goat cheddar. It looked awesome, but it had several mishaps. First, the dog got into it while it was sitting curing on the counter (in a place where I didn’t think he could reach [...] A while (a long while) back I was asked how the bees are doing — I’ve been pretty silent about them since I got them in April. This was largely motivated by despair. It turned out that the startup costs of keeping hives were too much for me this year, and I didn’t get [...] This is what the morning looks like chez nous. On weekends, Wednesdays, and every other Friday — that is, the days that i don’t have to commute — I milk my goat, whose name is Mama Goat (I’m not very creative). Garth milks on Mondays, and farm/foodie friend Laurie does Tues/Thurs/Fri-when-Garth-is-at-school. Today [...] Catching up — or trying to — on so many things these days. Hundreds of backlogged farm-related blog posts piled up in my RSS reader. Quilt fabric I bought about this time last year, washed, and stuck in the cupboard. (The other day I ironed it. It’s a step!) The Washington Young Farmers Coalition [...] Just heard via the the Seattle Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance that although most farms have pre-sold turkeys, Palouse Pastured Poultry will have unclaimed organic turkey this week at the Broadway Market, Sunday 11am to 3pm, at Broadway and Pine in the Seattle Central Community College space. You will want to get there EARLY if [...] We are in Yakima this weekend for the Tilth Producers Conference. It’s our fifth year attending! So far we have learned about farming with draft horses; ecological weed management via cover cropping, smart tilling, no-till methods, etc.; poultry breeds for small farms; and issues for young and beginning farmers. There was also a [...] In the interest of having a recent post *not* tagged with “death,” here is a great article about how to pick healthy seedlings. You should read the whole article so you learn the reasoning, but the takeaways that affect your shopping habits are: When you buy seedlings, look at the bottom of [...] One morning a few weeks ago, on a day with Garth was in class so I was covering morning chores, I rolled out of the house on my way to milk the goat, and I noticed a pile of white feathers on the dewy ground … no wait, make that several piles, strewn about [...] This email already went out to our list subscribers (sign up here) and our Facebook friends and Twitter followers may have seen it too, so apologies for duplicates … We are really sad to have to tell you that we will not have any turkeys available for sale this year. We had significant [...] KRAUT, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. We are fully stocked on sauerkraut!! Almost twice as much as we made last year. The single purple cabbage in the batch made everything lightly pink-tinged, and the very purple jar is from the layer that was just purple cabbage. This is incredibly easy to make, by [...] |
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