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 …
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!
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 …
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 …
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 …
