Egg Season Has Started!
As the days lengthen the eggs start appearing again in the nest boxes! And so it has begun – egg season. And that, folks, is whey the Easter Bunny has a basket of eggs!
Category: Current Events
My First Bread in over Forty Years
Ken has been making sourdough bread for years. I pulled his starters out , fed them and was happy to learn they are still alive! The first try I added too much flour, but it worked for a pizza dough! Today I tried a gain – and it isn’t dog or chicken food!
My Learning Curve on Planting
About a week ago I planted seeds for shoots for the first time; it was a job Ken used to do for us. I am happy to announce things are sprouting and growing I used the biodynamic calendar and chose a leaf day The problem is some varieties may be too big and floppy for the CSA. This is the learning curve. …
Harvest Newsletter
Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has onions, garlic, rutabaga, kohlrabi, daikon or black radish, winter squash or pie pumpkins, beets, carrots and cabbage Field Notes. As I write this on Monday, snow is swirling around, and I join the snow day joy of school children. Snow acts as an insulating blanket over the garden and helps slow the frost dropping into the soil. The frost will affect how soon soil temperatures are warm …
Getting By with Some Help from My Friends: The Saw Buck
We have had some cold weather. And Ken got sick with tractors and wood splitter not working. A friend brought me a load of wood. Another helped stack it. And a third hosted me in her workshop and built (with a bit of help from me) a prototype of a sawbuck from my memory of one Ken and I had years ago. A Saw buck is an x-shaped sawhorse that holds longer …
Taking on New Tasks – Planting Micro Greens
With Ken’s death I have difficult decisions. Do I try to do things he did and I am not sure to do? Do I use up seeds and do my best? I decided yes to those questions Ken planted micro greens for winter CSA boxes and I had ordered the seed. Although I had watched him and chatted with him while he did this, I never did this. So here …
No, I Haven’t Gone on a Bender
No, I have not gone on a bender! There was a cat in the house who likes to push pens onto the floor
Seed Order
Each year I do the seed order. This year with Ken’s death all is uncertain. But I have a garden and I like to grow food. I decided to place an order and grow my food. So my order has been placed
Ken’s Sourdough Starters
Ken used to bake the bread in this house. He had worked in a bakery. So I contacted people for advice to care for his sour dough starters. Today I decided to just give it a try. First I got out the rye berries and rolled them I added the sour dough starter Then as Ken did, I added some whey. …
Asparagus in Winter
Each spring I freeze some asparagus. Why? In winter when I crave green food I make some creamed asparagus soup. For this batch I fried some onion, added stock, thyme, asparagus and some salt and pepper with a bit of lemon juice. Then I ran batches through the blender. It is nice to add a dollop of yogurt when serving
