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OK! Our first batch of chickens for the year is almost ready to go and our CSA program idea is completely off the rails, but I have finally prepared the order form and the various other bits of necessary information. Anyway, most of the details are as in previous years. It’s all detailed [...] One of the super-chipper young bloggers at Polyface Farm posted about what her day looks like, and since my morning went particularly well today, I thought I’d try the same thing. It is basically never this productive, but I was pretty proud of today. 5:34 AM: after hitting snooze a few times, realize [...] Yesterday I saw this Lehman’s blog post about feeding turkeys with peanut hearts, which are apparently the little tiny nubbins that you find between the two halves of the peanut. I immediately thought of CB’s Nuts up in Kingston, so I emailed to see if they have surplus peanut hearts. Turns out they do, [...] We’re still here, just swamped with chickens1, turkeys2, goats3, the garden such at it is4, Grandma5, and Oscar6. — 1. Yes there will be broilers, process date June 18. Order form coming … eventually. Another batch will be arriving on the 8th, so ready mid-August. 2. More hatchery drama this year — the [...] Today is pretty much the first sunny day in 2011. It is definitely the first day it’s been over 60. It’s fantastic. I checked on the new beehives to make sure they got the queens out — they did — and are building comb — they are. I pulled up all the [...] Here’s what’s up in Spring 2011. Hmm, why on earth would there be a mouth-shaped chunk taken out of my Small-Scale Goatkeeping book? The culprit Her accomplice aka baby Upcoming new newses: bees tomorrow. One more goatlet on Sunday, a yearling who we’ll breed as soon as she’s [...] The article is kind of silly, but I love the graphic at the top of this post. The woman is scattering some grain to make all the chix come running, because a running chicken is extremely funny. For us the analog is the silver bucket we keep in the kitchen that gets filled up [...] I have been MAKING! Many days back, at the Country Living Expo, I bought a little one-ounce ingot of beeswax with the intent of making some lotion or lip balm … someday. Then this weekend when I read Stephanie at 3191′s post about being able to make salve from what’s already in the [...] Slow-Baked Beans With Kale – Recipes for Health – NYTimes.com Cassoulet with no meat! just mirepoix and beans and kale and awesomeness. (tags: recipes beans dinner kale) Finally, An article featuring the attributes/observations on applying raw milk to the soil. | Green Pasture Products Spraying raw milk on the soil/grass, plus notes on [...] Several folks have replied to our survey about our potential plans and decisions to make for the next growing season. The survey is still open, so if you want to comment please do! Thank you to everyone who has responded so far (and thank you for all the warm fuzzies we got from hearing [...] It did keep the slugs out. It did not keep the rats out. The lettuce bed, post-rat. (Apparently they don’t like arugula.)
We had a productive day outside yesterday; it felt good to be digging in the dirt again. I had some lettuces I’d started inside under lights, and I planted them out in the greenhouse where the last batch of lettuce froze to death. I ended up with ~10 arugula plants (which I carefully marked [...] |
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