Over the past week Ken has been working to clear the cut wood along the drive. Once he cuts it to length, loads it onto the trailer and gets the trailer up to the wood splitter I start to help. He runs the splitter and I stack. We have stacked teh north end shelves and a rack on the north end to hold the wood in place. And north of that are chunks that …
Oscar went to the vet Friday. He has had a benign tumor for a few years, and recently it started to grow at a rapid rate. I had tried various suggestions from holistic animal folks to no avail. It was time to remove it. Of course we are puzzled. Over the years we have had dogs and cats, but Oscar is the only one to have a tumor. He is home and is supposed …
Well, after nearly 70 degrees we have had two cold nights. At this point the Nanking Cherries, plums and some apples are blooming or budded out. Will the cold mean we will lose the crop? We just have to wait and see!
Yesterday Ken bottled up his raw vinegar from our apples – raw, unfiltered, with mother. Available in two sizes. Price includes bottle deposit.
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s box has greens – lettuce, salad mix, spinach, wild mustard, green onions, chives, potatoes, celery root, beets, and herbs. Field Notes. Ken has been planting and transplanting: his nursery inside the mobile high tunnel, his pepper and tomato plants in the germination cabinet, and the onion seedlings. He has also been cleaning up the greenhouse in the field; perennial crops have perennial weeds. And to avoid any possible boredom, …
Ken has been clearing the hill of some logs he cut log ago. He measures Then he cuts some long enough for the side stoke holes in the pottery kiln Some wood is cut in short lengths and stacked on a trailer. Ken splits and I stack for the cook stove. Some will also go to the larger wood stove near the studio on the lower floor. …
I had a request that I make some grey rugs. I warped up my older loom with grey warp. After weaving some white t-shirt fabric to space out the warp, I started running the shuttle – first the warp grey for the end! For the body of the rug I stared with a medium grey and then added some putty colored accents. Here is the view as I …
After harvest Wednesdays, Ken and I regroup. Today I found myself in the kitchen. First I made some mayonnaise with some egg yolks, and then some macaroons with the egg whites. Then I made some custard with some cracked eggs. Ken requested some macaroni and cheese. Here is a skillet with baked ziti with cheese sauce, onion, peas, and frozen ripe …
Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has spinach, lettuce, salad greens, potatoes, beets, celery root, gobo, green onions or chives, potato onions, and herbs. Field Notes. Ken is almost done with pruning fruit trees and vines. He has been planting, and we have received our seed potatoes. Soon we will set the late crop potato seed to chit in a sunny window. Last week we had a big spinach harvest – …
Ken has sprouted grain for animal feed for decades. Sprouting adds nutrition to grain, and is more digestible. Currently he soaks grain overnight and pours into screens he made. Then he puts the screens in a rack he got secondhand. He fills the rack. He waters the sprouts as needed If the weather is dry and windy …
