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So it’s Spring and the chickens are sleeping in the coop and are still in the sacrificial paddock when the fence keeps them in and free-ranging when it doesn’t. I prefer to think of it as a Sacrifice Zone but that’s because I’m a nerd. The result is that we’ve got a mess of [...] We made a lot of progress on the expanded chicken coop this weekend! Its name is now Chicken Bunker, on account of how cozy and built-into-the-hill it is. All that’s left to do is get the roof on and wire up the sides, which is only a few more hours of work. The old [...] We’ve been processing tomatoes, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. … a little at a time. We don’t have a pot that holds more than four quart-jars anyway so it works out. We have also slow-roasted and frozen a couple of pounds, and have dried some too. Pictured: Green Zebra; Ananas Noire; Black Prince; Brandywine; [...] I was sure it was just going to rain all through August (which it did) and into September and then for the rest of the winter, with no breaks. But it has warmed up and cleared up, and we have some tomatoes coming in after all. In fact, we harvested enough on Thursday to [...] 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 [...] Colors that tomatoes might be: orange; yellow; red.* See the whole set (reproduced here in its entirety). Click on any picture to view it in Flickr. Orange cherry tomatoes get some color, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Yellow Pear tomatoes get some color, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Oregon Cherry tomatoes get some color, originally [...] |
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