Inadvertent 100% homegrown meal

… with the obvious exceptions of the wine, salt, pepper.

Chicken: grown by us. Beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, garlic, roasting under the chicken: grown by us. Butter for basting: made by us from cream from organic, happy Washington pastured cows from Fresh Breeze. Stock for helping veggies cook: made by us from [...]

Update on the Straw Bale Root Cellar

So we recently figured out how to turn on stats for the blog and it turns out that many people get here by searching for “straw bale root cellar,” which is something I posted about earlier after shamelessly stealing the idea from Throwback at Trapper Creek.

It’s a Futurama joke. Sorry

Unfortunately, [...]

Snowpocalypse is hard.

It’s getting brighter. Slowly. And the snow is starting to melt and maybe the hoophouses will uncollapse and the poultry will get to go outside and play. In the meantime, please enjoy the following reminders of summer, when you could wear shorts and dig potatoes out of warm dirt.

Handfuls of potatoes!

Burrito fixins

Burrito fixins, originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

Stew meat (from our quarter cow) was braising in the oven. Garden potatoes boiled like normal. Garden zucchini and garden tomatoes grilled briefly. All combined in a delicious tortilla with a sauce of sour cream + goat yogurt (island grown!) plus garden basil. Garden cabbage on [...]

Lord Potato and his underlings

Lord Potato and his underlings, originally uploaded by laurenipsum.