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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 [...] Suspicious ameraucanas are suspicious, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. We got some new chicks today. I can tell I am getting used to this because I am not captivated by their cuteness — in fact, I keep forgetting they are there. They will lay blue/green eggs, though, which is [...] We have been meaning to write about this for a while, and today friend and blog-reader Melinda provided the impetus when she emailed to ask how our hoophouses are constructed. I know they are working with a raised bed, so I took some photos to illustrate how we have ours set up! It [...] It’s April, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. 1. Tomato seedlings (we’re behind), 2. Swirly egg and speckly egg, 3. QUACK, 4. Garlic and mustard greens, 5. Impending artichoke, 6. When we pulled back the sheet on this hoophouse, it was like opening a present Created with fd’s Flickr [...] In honor of yesterday’s equinox, I hurried home from work and Garth and I cooked dinner together, with a bit of prep done by him while I was still at work. I had previously purchased some lamb chops from Skagit River Ranch with a spring celebration meal in mind, so Garth thawed them and [...] Sprouting fava beans in a dish of water, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Local food friends Anne & Ryan got us a packet of crimson-flowered fava beans from Seed Dreams, a small seed company in Port Townsend. Yay! I have put them in water to chit, also known as [...] Amusing top-to-carrot ratio, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. I was picking carrots for dinner and I thought “Oh the tops are all small, I’ll gather several” and then I pulled up this tiny carrot top and I got this huge lovely carrot. My six-inch santoku knife included for [...] Peepers demonstrate Charlie’s Angels’ pose, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Thanks to Garth for the punchline! 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. Hello potatoes! Handfuls of [...] Don’t ever let anyone tell you* that it’s too hard to eat local and organic in the winter! Look at this variety! Each of these photos is of a different vendor (except the turnips and the squash immediately following; those are from the same one). I didn’t take a picture of my haul [...] We pasture our chickens with a combination of a chicken tractor and electric mesh fencing. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get a good charge on the fence and, in combination with the dogs being friendly with the chickens and keeping predators down, we don’t turn the electric fence on. It’s just a big [...] The other day we were looking through my “chickens” tag on Flickr, reminiscing about how cute they were when they were tiny. I realized I haven’t taken any pictures of the chickens in a good long while, even though I (we?) spend a lot of time thinking about them and checking on them. They [...] |
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