February 22, 2013 farm life kitchen Gearing Up for the FTE Does everyone have their storm preps done? At this writing (Thursday night) the Big Storm of Doom is stretching all the way back to the Dako...
February 21, 2013 farm kitchen How to Cook Maple Syrup I should say this is ONE way to cook maple sap into maple syrup. We are probably doing it wrong but it totally worked! So we were really exc...
February 20, 2013 goats Goat Due Dates, a new Goats Page, and Questions? Yesterday I finally sat down and figured out exactly when all of these goats are due. You'll remember our breeding plan didn't reall...
February 18, 2013 Home Hog Harvest - Yes you can! Interview with Harmonious Homestead It may be just 20* out there but I just know that spring is coming and we'll all be ramping up our farming activities. Hopefully you'...
February 17, 2013 farm life Cooking the "M" A bunch of us over on ' the facebook ' had a pretty good laugh this weekend about a recent news story. As I was tromping thru the ho...
February 15, 2013 farm life On the fence I found some old pictures.... I love this one. It's from several years ago, fall, at the old farm. On the fence. Happy Friday! Any body ...
February 14, 2013 pigs Winter Pigz. Sucks. The winter pigz are just about done...... Would you just look at the bacon on these bad boys? TBM for scale. We were talking on 'the fac...
February 13, 2013 chickens kitchen It was a chicken-tastic day! We've been working our way thru the winter meat chickens so this week has been about parting up heaps of meat. I had a complete and to...
February 12, 2013 dogs Doesn't Matter - Got the Mole She got it alright...... Kai and Zander spent about an hour digging a mole out of this spot the other day. It's a big hole....for a smal...
February 11, 2013 farm life goats What's the word, Nibs? Hey Nibbles! What's the word - how's that attitude of yours? There you have it. Lookin' good, Nibs... You can't tell from ...
February 9, 2013 farm life We Made Maple Syrup! I'm not prepared to call it a raging success... but hey! Look what we did! The fruit of our labor. That's a half pint jar, folks. Ta...
February 8, 2013 farm life I'd Tap That We tapped some maple trees yesterday... More on this later - but I think it totally worked! We'll have results soon. Happy Friday every...
February 6, 2013 Death Shines in His Eyes She had been unhorsed earlier in the day but now thundered toward the safety of the Eastern Gate. OFG clutched her knight, Shine, in one a...
February 5, 2013 ducks Missing Duck Mystery - Solved! Ever since w e got that new drake the ducks have been in a dither. We had to shuffle everyone around to put all of the duck hens in with th...
February 4, 2013 geese Snow Day - the Goose Edition We are still swarmed in snow. Snow snow snow and more snow. Snow everywhere. No one is happy. Well. I gotta say the geese are not unhappy. W...
February 2, 2013 kitchen Smoked Duck and Bacon Hash That's what we had for blunch today.... it was really great. Bacon - from the yard . Duck - smoked it a while ago Taters - home grown an...
February 1, 2013 kitchen A Fabulous Pancetta Remember t hat shockingly beautiful belly piece we got from our last pork butcher day ? It was naturally rolled which made it a candidate fo...
January 31, 2013 rant And then it just kind of died... Do I sound faster? If yes it may be due to my fancy new computer. My poor, long suffering laptop finally just kind of died. We are trying to...
January 29, 2013 dogs Coffee with a Canine interviews me! Hey check it out! My pal over at Coffee with a Canine interviewed me and my hard workin' farm dogs! Thanks, CwaC, so much for giving me...
January 28, 2013 farm life Folklore Apothecary & Tilton Hollow I'll tell you what, friends. If you want to make a farm pal happy - give them a gift bucket. Not a basket.... a gift bucket. It was a re...
January 26, 2013 kitchen How about a little petit déjeuner? Croissants. Nailed it. Any body want to come on over for a little chocolat chaud and some croissants? It's what's for breakfast. Fi...