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.
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
We have been gone from the farm for almost two weeks, due to National Guard and a wedding in Tennessee. That's right, all the Kraeger men are married now. No more available in this batch, you'll have to wait until the next batch matures. We returned to a somewhat neglected garden. Some sort of animal… Continue reading Family Garden Day
This post was accidentally sitting in my draft queue for the last three weeks. Here it is, the end of May. Look who decided it was time to sit on her nest. She's been laying eggs since the beginning of March, but not sitting on them. We stopped taking the eggs at the beginning of… Continue reading Bye Bye Geese
I am Ellie this is my Blog! Can you read it? I was in my house, and I made an Ellie-crown. I made it out of a stick and flowers. Then I ended up in the middle of the field because I walked to get more daisies. This tree is a walnut that should be… Continue reading Odd Jobs: Fencing
Little Farm in the Big City 