Dafs in the Rye

Last year Ken led us through a renovation of the perennial flower are in the center of the drive.  We pulled out plants, separated weeds, divided, replanted on the other side of the drive, and then pigs and chickens dug up the area.  Ken then planted rye.  It came up early this spring and greened up     And there in the rye, after all the tilling, pigs digging, and chickens scratching are DAFODILS!

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Mark Your Calendars!

Spring Opener at Keppers Pottery and Produce Saturday May 6th and Sunday May 7th  10:00 – 5:00 Participating in Earth Arts Tour Hosting Joyce Halvorson, blacksmith New Pottery and Fresh Produce              

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Harvest Newsletter

Greetings from the Garden!  This CSA box has fresh greens – braising and salad, parsnips, gobo, beets, carrots, onions, and fresh herb.       Field Notes.  Pepper plants are looking good.  Tomatoes have been planted.  Onion seedlings are hardening off in the greenhouse.  Ken set up a hoopette for early roots and has planted peas.    I am trying to get my loom warped before I move out doors.  I start cleaning and pricing …

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Egg Season – Ideas

Spring is egg season.  There is a reason the Easter Bunny is carrying a basket of eggs.  And it is the time of year when one has extra eggs to color or dye.       My birthday is in March.   Ken makes me a souffle.         Most years I start with omelettes as we also have fresh spinach this time of year.  Then when we have a social event I make …

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Warping Up – Many Steps

I have started warping up a loom.  My goal is to keep both looms warped up so that I do more weaving during spring, summer and fall.  The more carefully one warps up the loom the fewer mistakes one has to work around as one weaves.  Since I am a sporadic weaver I don’t warp the loom often enough so that it is an easy task.  First one calculates how many ends or strands of …

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Harvest Newsletter

Greetings from the Garden!  This CSA box has salad mix, spinach, turnip greens, freshly dug parsnips and gobo, carrots, potato onions, potatoes, and fresh herbs Field Notes.  Ken is a busy guy: cleaning up, bed prep and planting.  The peppers are coming up in the germination chamber and next he plants tomatoes.  And there are other spring tasks.  I volunteered to clean the stationary chicken coops so Ken can place broody hens and a clutch …

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Spring Tasks – Cleaning the Coops

One of the many spring tasks is cleaning out coops.  Although we use two portable coops most of the time, the older stationary coops are great spaces for broody hens, tiny chicks, and pesty young cockerels.  This year I volunteered to take on the task.  Fist Ken got me set us with open windows, doors and tools.  As I filled first cart and then wheelbarrow, Ken  shuttled them to the compost pile. Then we had …

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Pottery Wrap Up

This time of year Ken starts to wrap up making pottery.  The call of the  the many tasks awaiting him outdoors sounds more and more loudly.  Yes, there is planting, and there is   clean up,  bed prep, getting out things put away last fall, repairs if necessary.     And all the apples, plums, grapes, etc need trimming and pruning!  Today Big Red appears to be helping!

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