Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has lots of greens – spinach, lettuce, beet thins, etc. We also have green onions or chives, beets, celery root, potatoes, and herbs. Field and Farm Notes. Thank you to all who came out to our Spring Opener! Ken has been moving poultry so he can get into the garden. Oscar usually circles the coop so the chickens can’t “escape,” but with the vet’s …
I am excited about this rug! When I got the request for grey rugs I had wondered how I would make a good looking grey rug – not dingy or boring. I saw a photo of this pattern in other colors and it appealed to me as I love uneven somewhat random inlays of contrast color. Here is the 12 inch pattern I will repeat.
This year our Spring opener is Saturday May 6th and Sunday May 7th 10 – 5 both days. We have joined the Earth Arts tour again this year We have pottery for sale We will have produce for sale And Joyce Halvorson will be here demonstrating black smithing and selling her work
Each season we get piglets. They are part of our farm team. Pigs love to dig. So Ken decides which digging project they do each year: renovate a portion of garden or field, clear a fence line, or some such. They get new turf as needed all season. They eat culled vegetables, so I cook up a pot of potato peelings, apple cores, etc. for them. When they arrive …
Oscar had surgery a week ago. It was more complicated than expected. Monday he had drains removed, and the vet suggested we put a t-shirt on him so he does not lick or scratch his stitches. It seems to be working We were told he should not run as he is healing, so we have kept him on leash. He obviously wants to resume his on farm duties. Ken’s compromise is to …
Greetings from the Garden! This box has greens – spinach, lettuce, salad mix, potato onions or green onions, potatoes and beets from the root cellar and some fresh herbs Field Notes. Ken keeps a-planting and a-weeding. Right now he is also getting ready for our spring opener next weekend. His largest task is clearing some downed wood and I am helping stack once we split it. Oscar went in for surgery. He had a benign …
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.
