We are happy to announce the beginning of our own beef herd with our first purchase of two Angus heifers. A heifer is a female bovine who has not yet given birth to a calf. The two heifers have been bred to this bull, and we are looking forward to meeting their calves in August …
The flurry of harvesting is nearly over. The garden has browned and crumpled, the winter kale has stopped growing, and the tail end of the harvest is in the kitchen waiting to be put away. . The last of the apples are landing in baskets and boxes, and pies, and crisps, and sauce, and jelly …
Not long after Dave pulled into a produce wholesaler to pick up our weekly load of mushy produce, a man approached offering a tractor trailer load of veggies. The trucker’s reefer had malfunctioned on his trip up from Georgia and his whole load had been frozen: he needed to find a place to dump it. …
The 6 foot wide strip garden we put in this summer is about finished producing. We have some late tomatoes still coming on, the popcorn and sunflowers are drying on their stalks, and the coriander seeds are maturing. This past week a chicken got run over on the road. The considerate man got out of …
The gardens are flourishing, and we have been enjoying the bounty. I haven’t harvested enough to begin any large scale canning, but the tomatoes are just starting to turn red. If we get a few more warm days, I’ll be making sauce soon. We have harvested enough to fill our plates and put a few …
Making use of these cool sunny days lately, Dave has been building fences. The pigs have plowed through more pasture than ever, so we are expanding. Dave cleared a strip 40 feet wide through a section of trees and rented a post hole pounder to put in 12 posts, stringing three wires two thirds of …
Summer is here in full force, and we are beginning to anticipate the harvest. I walk through my gardens in hope, enjoying the promise and anticipating the rush of putting up. Take a photo tour of a few of the plants with me. As a result of the kids’ interest in the American Indian custom …
We have some robins who made a nest in the eaves of the pigs’ portable shade hut. A baby hatched. And the fledgling left the nest. I didn’t have the heart to photograph the mama cat snatching it for her kitten or the parents trying to persuade the cat to let it go.
