Old Dogs, Old Tricks
Edmund went away for a long weekend, which meant I was on livestock duty and also that the animals weren’t on their best behavior. On Friday I was drinking my...
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Old Dogs, Old Tricks
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What I'm Eating 9/1/15
This is a dinner from last week, not last night. As you may have noticed Garth and I have not managed to keep up with our aspired to posting schedule....
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Stories We Tell
The place we stayed in Arizona offered trail rides. We didn’t go on one, since Arden wasn’t old enough, but we did watch a group set out. Once they were...
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Lyme Time
I feel lucky that I’ve been on the farm for five years and have only now contracted lyme disease for the first time, but it’s also depressing. Three years ago...
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The Scythe
Before I started this year's project I fantasized about putting up a day's worth of hay with my scythe. With that data in hand I could compute how many days...
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Ripe Tomatoes
In past posts I’ve mentioned the little greenhouse in which I planted tomatoes, peppers, melons, and basil. The one big disappointment has been the pepper plants, which have hardly set...
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Free Range Chickens
Back in the end of May Garth noted that we had some new babies on the farm. The hen we moved down closer to the house to incubate her eggs...
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Cairncrest West
Hello. Perhaps you’ve been wondering what happened to me. I hope no one has been following this blog obsessively enough to remember the post in which I mentioned that my...
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Potatoes
Long time readers of this blog may remember that my 2014 potato crop was less than it might have been. Pink rot struck late in the year, apparently it is...
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Blueberries
Apparently WordPress does not agree with my sentiment it should be OK to leave a blogpost untitled if the lead image is the title. My apologies to anyone who tried...
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Hybrid Willows
One aspect of farming that I try to minimize is having a group of animals stay in any place too long. It's easy to keep everyone rotating all over the...
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Mr Winchester
This is our bull Mr Winchester. In cattlespeak he's the herdsire. He's the only male bovine on the farm who is fully intact if you catch my drift. Actually, come...
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Dumber than a Jumbo Shrimp
Even before I subjected myself to the ridiculous strictures of a farm-only diet I spent a lot of time thinking about cooking meat. No, not like that Onion article -...
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Squash
I am really happy about the squash so far this year. I finally timed the seed starts correctly and the frost co-operated with the planting out. I love winter squash...
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