They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
We are getting into the final stretch (get it?) of our North Pasture fencing project. Our friend Vincent came over to help us stretch it. He has never done any fencing before, but that did not prevent him from learning quickly and being a great help. We anchored section one at the west end and… Continue reading Subdividing the North Pasture: Stretching the Fence.
One of Ellie's favorite Christmas presents last year was... "The Redwall Cookbook." https://www.amazon.com/Redwall-Cookbook-Brian-Jacques/dp/0399237917 She and Evie have both been into reading the Redwall Series ever since Daddy read them "Redwall" "Mossflower" and "Mattimeo" last year for bed time reading. She has now read thirteen of the 22 books in the series. (She wants everyone to… Continue reading Cheerful Churchmouse Cherry Crisp
Had a couple of failures with the duck prosciutto. Pulled the last one out of the fridge on Monday June 23rd. It had a final weight of 0.13 kg. Initial weight of 0.26 kg. 50% weight loss. However, when I unwrapped it, a cloud of mold spores flew up and it smelled like a stinky… Continue reading Duck Prosciutto Part 3: failures
Squash is continuing to grow up the sides of the trellis, while buckwheat grows up against the other side of it. And kids wander through the middle of it. That color on Seppi's face is "war paint." A.k.a. cherry juice. It helps him be more fierce. Very small raspberry harvest this year, but we are… Continue reading Garden Update
When I pounded the T-Posts on Saturday I checked the fence anchors we built a few weeks ago. All of the twitch wires had come a little loose. This was not surprising, the anchors always settle after a few weeks in the ground, especially with the rain we have had. The wire stretches and slips… Continue reading Fixing the twitch wires
Cooking with the kids is so much fun! (Most of the time). Winnie is pretty sure she is big enough to do everything. If you tell her she is too small she assures you with complete confidence "I know how to do it." What she lacks in size, she makes up for in attitude... except… Continue reading Another Food Post: Pie, Breakfast, Duck Breast
We have rain! Probably about 0.4 inches over Friday night into Saturday. This is good. We can use the extra rain in the garden and in the pasture, get a little more growth going and top of the rain catchment tank before the long dry of summer. This morning, June 21, is also the day… Continue reading Subdividing the North Pasture: Pounding T-Posts
We salted and hung five wraps of duck prosciutto on June 3rd. We came back from our Tennessee Travels on June 18th, so I checked on the Prosciutto, June 19th. Initial weights were written on the tape attached to each breast, but I did not record them here so I will have to check on… Continue reading Duck Prosciutto, Part 2
Like I mentioned in our last post, we have never gotten so many goumi berries at once before. Goumi berry is a nitrogen fixing shrub with a medium sized single-stem branching habit in the family Elaeagnus multiflora, which produces edible red berries in early summer. The berries are sweet, slightly-to-moderately astringent with a chewy pit… Continue reading Goumi Juice
Uncle Adam got out early on Friday morning and moved the sheep. After two weeks in separate paddocks for a quarantine period, we now have the sheep on the south pastured, following the steers. Two mature Katahdin Ewes. The white one is Edna, and the brown one is Eunice. Eunice's lamb is a little brown… Continue reading Sheepies on Pasture
Little Farm in the Big City 