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Moving the sheep, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. We moved the sheep & goats from our yard to the neighbor’s pasture. The sheep don’t much like walking on a lead and the shy little Soay REALLY do not like it — to the extent that it’s easier just to carry [...] Our shiny new cultivator! Our shiny new cultivator! We took a day “off” this weekend (Visited farmer’s markets and farms around Chimacum. And shopped for hay.) and headed up to Port Townsend. We perused an antique store and found a perfectly functional corn planter and a brightly painted Planet Junior-type wheel hoe. [...] Baby Robin PEEEEEEEEEP! This is what a baby robin looks like. Note the more-than-superficial resemblance to a baby chicken, like one of the three that used to be able to get out of the coop. Now, imagine that Oscar (Note to readers: Oscar is my dog) finds such a baby bird, partially [...] Broody chicken fulfills her broody destiny, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. She was determined to set but we don’t have a rooster, so we bought her some fertile eggs to sit on. They are hatching! She is so [...] We now have an official mailing list. Hooray! Please sign up on the list for general farm notifications. For now, this will just be notices when we open signups for chicken (5-6 batches of 50 over the course of the summer) and turkeys (30-50 available fresh for Thanksgiving). Sign up here! [...] A struggling mall in Cleveland converts their food court to a giant greenhouse. Thanks for Farming Fortunately, she doesn’t specify successful or competent farmers so we qualify. Fall is the season in which you can’t find a jar to put your lunch in because they are all full of canned food. Spring is the season where the empty jars overflow their drawer and spill out over the counter because you’ve eaten all of your preserves. Secondhand Circular Saw SKIL 7&1/4 $19.99 Needs a Blade Guard Spring I dislike power tools as a rule. The don’t do very many things, they cost too much money, and they break. Plus, any tool that’s designed to cut, abrade, or scrape wood in any way conjures up images of just how [...] We hosted Thanksgiving on Thursday for my mom and her husband and two friends of ours from Seattle and Port Hadlock. We had: Turkey from Olympic Pastured Poultry SMASHYpotato (Lauren’s name) Buttermilk biscuits with homemade buttermilk Glazed carrots Green salad with pomegranate dressing from Butler Greens Stuffing from our friend Skip. Some sort of [...] Except, you know, I don’t think it was actually a killing frost. I love the pacific northwest. There is also this potential guide to our being less utterly flawed. I’ve been wrong before, of course. We also had our first frost of the year. The ducks ended up on the porch of the shop [...] So the other day the girls laid only a single egg. It was bizarre. Then, the day after, we got five eggs. We normally get between three and six eggs per day, so having an egg-free day out of the blue was kind of bizarre. Everything seems to be back to normal. I guess [...] |
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