After a beautiful unseasonably warm autumn, cold weather and icy precipitation arrived Friday. Ken had been watching the weather and we went to the garden and covered some plants with fiber. Ken set up a long hoopette over the fall carrot and beet crops. Then as it neared dusk we changed hats and gloves and went to the mobile high tunnel. We covered …
Once the pigs go to the locker, Ken and I make soup stock from the heads and feet. I scrub the feet, and Ken starts the stock pot outside. Once the meat is tender I pull it from the bones and return the bones and cartilage to the pot. Then once the stock is done, Ken strains it and sets it outside so the fat rises. The next morning I skim the fat and set …
Greetings for the Garden! This week’s CSA box has salad and braising greens, potatoes, squash, sweet potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots or beets, celery, winter tomatoes, and herbs Field Notes. What a season! We have had such a beautiful fall. Ken has finished digging potatoes and is wrapping up field work. The forecast is for cold weather later this week, so we will be getting the squash and onions to inside storage, hoopettes up over some …
