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I have all these tabs open so I don’t lose track of the recipes, but my browser is starting to drag … so that I can close them, here is what we have been making, in no particular order: Portuguese-ish clams and sausage, except I basically barely followed the recipe. I used soft, [...] A late, but bountiful year in our strawberry patch, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. This is one of maybe 30 strawberry plants in the patch. And there are a couple other clusters like this on this plant. When I was growing up we would always have strawberry cake for my sister’s birthday, [...] I grabbed this little flyer the other day at the market, and repost with Betsey’s permission: Volunteers needed June 11 & 12! Betsey Wittick needs your help to preserve 8 acres of Bainbridge Island wine grape vines! Saturday 6/11 1:00pm-5:00pm Sunday 6/12 9:00am-1:00pm Sunday 6/12 1:00pm-5:00pm To join the crop [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] [...] First the good news! We’ve been getting back in to the swing of things gradually (or abruptly in some cases — when the baby chicks show up at the post office, you’d better be ready!). We’ve gotten rehabituated to the morning routine of opening the greenhouse, watering seedlings, and gathering eggs, and I’m doing [...] Yesterday we spent the day preparing to have mushrooms in the fall. Friends Joanna (who interned at a farm out here last summer) and Jacob came out for the day, bearing safety gear and two giant bags of plugs (basically dowels) inoculated with shiitake mushroom spores from Fungi Perfecti. The first step (after eating [...] |
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