We are low tech here whenever possible. For laundry Ken runs a wringer washer while I hang the clothes on the lines. In winter we wait for a sunny day. The clothes freeze on the line. They are “boardy” and stiff. After a while they become limp and that means the moisture is out. Once they get past the boardy stage I bring them in by the cook stove on a bar …
Winter returned this week, and it looks like it is here for quite some time. After a beautiful warm fall that forecast of -11 for a low on next Tuesday sounds pretty cold! We got some snow, and Ken and I would like more. the snow acts as an insulating blanket to slow the frost going deep into the ground. One year we got early snow and the ground really did not …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has salad and braising greens, potatoes, winter tomatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, carrots or beets, onions or leeks, garlic, and herbs Field Notes. Well, We had an honest blast of cold after last harvest. Ken and I covered greens in both garden and mobile high tunnel, Ken got a hoopette over the carrots and beets, moved the chickens to winter quarters – …
