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.
And other shenanigans. By Ellie Belle. (Translated and with editorial notes by Daddy.) evie is bring home eggs and cabbage ewwww!! the cabbage is foll of afedes (The cabbage is full of aphids. Dusty little gray bits that infest the spaces between leaves). the cabbageis roten (The cabbage is not actually rotten, just infested). we… Continue reading Happy Birthday, Winnie!
The children have been hard at work building a fort in the straw bales under the car port. The farm is a dangerous place. Enemies attack us on a regular basis. Mostly Nazis and vermin hordes. Sometimes a budding young paratrooper can get shot in the ensuing war. She does her own moulage too! When… Continue reading The Fort
What do you do with a 13 Lb red cabbage? This cabbage was one of the late planted cabbages from last year that didn't sprout in time for winter, but took off as soon as the ground started to warm up in the spring. It has been growing next to the pea trellis ever since.… Continue reading Sauerkraut!
Tuesday was the day we got around to harvesting our wheat. It was a bit disappointing. If you look closely at the picture above you will see that a significant number of the wheat stalks are missing their seed head. In this section it was 50% or more, most other sections were not hit quite… Continue reading Harvesting Wheat and Garlic
The radishes are done for the first half of the season, and we harvested the chiogga beets. Now it's time to replant the beds. But first... A mater! One beautiful little Heirloom Marriage, ripening right on the vine! I am so happy! Broccoli for lunch. Trust her, she is very skillful with that thing, and… Continue reading Prepping garden beds
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
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
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
Edmund has another contract. This time for $40, For one post hole, minimum 42" deep, big enough to set a railroad tie exactly 16 feet from both corner posts at the gate to the chicken-yard and south pasture. This is the beginning of the next phase of pasture development, step one of dividing up the… Continue reading Subdividing the South Pasture, Part 1: Learning
Little Farm in the Big City 