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Finished canning 34 qts. and 26 pts. of tomatos. The black krim tomatoes were awesome. Seeing the way they changed colors thru the process 2009/07/24
Dug 400 #'s of Binjte potatoes with Erin, CJ, and Jen this morning, Re -bedded and fed around 6,000 worms in the afternoon. 2009/07/17
local bratwurst boiled in beer with 6 Binjte potatoes. Grilled them with ear of fresh corn and 1st Russian Purple tomato...awesome 2009/07/06
Picked 3 five gal. buckets of Zephyr Squash this evening. http://tinyurl.com/q6244k 2009/07/06

Snow Chickens

The chickens were freaked out by the snow last Saturday. They just stood in their coop looking out. After lunch I went and got a round bale of wheat straw with the tractor and spread it out in front of their coop and moved some feeders on top of the straw. The hens loved all [...]

It’s Cold!!!

Our hens are getting old, they will be two years old in February. A dog year is said to be the equivalent of 7 human years. As far as I can tell, with limited research, is that a year in the life of a laying hen is equal to 26 human years or thereabouts.
That sort [...]

Thanks for a Great Market Wednesday

And thank you all for making 2009 a great year. We appreciate your support and friendship.
The Wednesday afternoon market at Yorkmont took us by surprise. We got there at 1 pm and were sold out by 2 pm. We brought 50 bunches of collards, two 18 gallon tubs of Tuscan kale, and 22 dozen eggs. [...]

November – More Pigs, Butchering Turkeys, and Lust

Ellie, I, and my neighbor Carl, drove 2+ hours to Ruthfordton and picked up 4 piglets Sunday. Ossawbaw/ Yorkshire and Ossawbaw/ Hampshire crosses. For breeding stock.
I had planned for one of these pigs to end up in our freezer but Ellie named one Penny and Levi named the other Stacy as they came off the [...]

Late October, planting garlic, herding turkeys, and new pig

I was up early October 11th,on the back porch looking up at the waning moon and waiting for it to get light enough to start planting garlic. We had a lot of help show up to help us plant. Jane, Amber, Pam and Doug, and Heather and Kevin.
We planted 80 lbs of garlic, laid [...]

Catching Chickens

Jenifer hit the wall Wednesday. The yard birds had to go.
It started off innocently enough this summer. Some of our old hens would migrate from their wagon, hang around in the yard and woods during the day, and then go back home.
Then a couple of them started roosting on the back porch. That was kind [...]

Garlic Everywhere!

Popping Garlic
That is what it is called when you bust up garlic bulbs into individual garlic cloves and that is what we did most of the day Tuesday with the help of CJ.
It is not that hard of work. We get to sit around. sit being the keyword, listening to the radio, and busting up [...]

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