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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Rules Amendment
I suppose it's clear from previous posts that both Garth and I really love coffee, and despite this fact we planned our year such that we'd have to forego it....
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Bacon?
In my last post I detailed a few days worth of food. I ate "bacon" during that time, and only just realized that I failed to explain that technically I...
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How to Brine
For the recent market I had the idea of handing out little bags of salt and sugar that, when dissolved in half a gallon of water, would make a good...
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Tastes Adrift
Throughout our long and passionate marriage, my wife Alanna has often compared a delicious, homemade dinner to the products of the most iconic fast food chain in the world. Specifically,...
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Food Tracking
Normandy suggested I do a post about what exactly I eat over the course of few days. In other posts I wrote about my diet being repetitive... well here's the...
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Soil Blocks
Instead of cells or pots I use soil blocks for all my early vegetable starts. The process involves making a wet soil mix (there are a bunch of different recipes)...
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What I'm Eating: Dandelion Greens
I’ve bemoaned the length of this past winter in almost every post I’ve written in the last month, but it has made the dandelion greens delicious. Dandelion greens are usually...
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The Meals of Just-ish, Part IV
This is the fourth installment in a multi-part series. If you're new to the blog read this post first so you're up to speed. Last week both Garth and I...
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The Fencing Trick
Almost all livestock fencing is ultimately a psychological ploy. This is obvious in the case of a single strand of flimsy electric twine successfully containing a few dozen beef cows,...
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The End, for now
This is the very end of my chicken supply. I like chicken soup made from 'retired' egg hens. I dug my last two small chickens out of the bottom of...
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My Thoughts About Food
I’ve always enjoyed cooking, and I’ve always been concerned about the treatment of farm animals. I was a vegetarian for several years, and I have an abiding interest in dietary...
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Maple Syrup
I recently restocked on maple syrup by bartering with Brian from Mill Hollow Maple. One component of this year's home-grown adventure is to be involved in, or at least lay...
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Ramps!
I had never eaten a ramp until I moved to the farm, and once I was here it still took a couple years before I figured out where they grow....
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