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.
Daddy was working out of town for four days last week, so it was not a very family friendly week, and consequently, slim blogging about the farm. This week Daddy is back at home and it's a short week because Thanksgiving is almost upon us. But we are trying to take the time to get… Continue reading Carrots and Parsnips and Eggs, Oh MY!
Welcome to my inaugural post! My hope is to share with you how we use the bounty we harvest from Three Hearts Farm to feed our family and community. There is something very satisfying about being able to grow and make food for others. This weekend we were had the opportunity to do just that.… Continue reading Saturday Night Dinner
Well, Folks, we definitely had a good time at the Ciderfest. It was not so big as we had thought (feared) it might become, and that was just as well, because it still took us 8 hours from first press to the last jar sealed. Of course the process began weeks ago, really, with collecting… Continue reading Ciderfest 2023
Seppi and Daddy went to the farm early on Friday to drop off apples and dig carrots and parsnips for Saturday’s soup. Some of these parsnips are gigantic! Unlike the carrots. We don’t have a speeding fork at the farm yet, so we tried to use the dung fork to break the ground. Alas, poor… Continue reading Soup Anyone?
This last week we’ve started cooking up some of the pig meat we put in the freezer. Country style ham, simmering in the pot. Kathleen had to dig back into her early 1900s cookbooks to get a recipe for a boiled country ham that was not already cooked. Finally, taking it off the stove at… Continue reading Cooking the pigs
The real battle takes place in the mind... https://youtube.com/shorts/D3CtU0pyx4M?feature=share
We now have gates on the paddock that is going to be the pig yard starting on Saturday. Seppi was the first to run through it, just to make sure it worked. Winnie discovered dirt. It’s pretty fun stuff Almost as fun as loose hay. We had to work in the rain a little bit,… Continue reading Paddock Gates
It is supposed to freeze pretty hard this weekend, so earlier this week we went and stripped the garden. Pretty much the only thing left in their worth salvaging was pumpkin and squash. But we got a good amount of that. Dozens of pumpkins, about a dozen butternut squash, eight or 10 of the giant… Continue reading Frost on the punkin?
After our experience with the buckwheat, we realized we don’t have weed control in the north field, so it would be a waste of money to plant wheat there this fall. The weeds would just take over. However, we realized that we were taking the tomatoes and squash out of the straw bales, and one… Continue reading Wheat sprouting
Last Monday, we finally got around to digging the beets. Next year we need to maintain some closer follow up on them, and get them out of the ground no more than 60 days after they go in. Some of them were quite overgrown and they had a sharper, stronger flavor than I am used… Continue reading Beets in the ground
