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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 [...] We’re likely going to be making some changes to the poultry business for the 2011 growing season. We didn’t make enough money last season to pay ourselves — we did cover feed costs, which is better than the year before, and we also covered most materials and some gas. But if we really want [...] I learned about the Henry Milker (hard not to read as Henry Miller) which is designed for fast, easy, clean milking of goats primarily. (I really want some dairy goats. This requires changing up our work schedules, which may actually be feasible …) Plus it milks straight into a mason jar! I love mason [...] My mental glitch: hay vs. straw. I do this all the time. I finally (a bit late) nailed down details for the crop planning workshop I coordinated (sort of). Here they are! You should come, and bring everyone! Using spreadsheets for crop planning Workshop led by Josh Volk, Portland farmer http://www.slowhandfarm.com When Sunday, January 30 10am – 1pm Stay after for a potluck lunch! Where [...] So I’ve been feeling bad about not cooking the ducks from a while back. Garth, meantime, has gotten into charcuterie. This has led to an accidental convergence of Meals of Duck here at Dropstoneland. Sunday night: Alton Brown’s Mighty Duck, with homegrown duck (with Laughing Crow garlic, organic orange juice, market mixed kale [...] |
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