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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Year of the Dog
A year ago today Alanna and Arden and I got in the car and drove a couple hours west to buy a puppy in a Friendly’s parking lot. It sounds...
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Parsnips!
You may have noticed when I've written about roots I've said nothing about parsnips. The reason is I screwed up last fall. Parsnips sweeten dramatically after some frosts and cool...
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Black Raspberries
I put in blackberries, raspberries, and black raspberries the first year I established the garden, and I've never regretted it. Well, the black berries were actually terrible. Though they were...
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The Great Old Ones
With apologies to H.P. Lovecraft and to any readers who find what follows idiotically abstruse. I have written in the past about mental strain of a limited diet, and lately...
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Local Fat
On occasion both Garth and I have been known to praise Simon Fairlie's book, Meat: A Benign Extravagance. For anyone interested in homesteading/permaculture/sustainability/food production, it deserves a place on the...
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Calorie Density
I've mentioned a number of times about the volume of roots I have to eat to get many calories. Here's a visual demonstration. The small stack of tallow on the...
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First Starts of the Year
Like any gardener, I’ve had both up and down years. I often can’t figure out why a particular crop fails or succeeds, and while I get better results every year,...
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Dessert?
I bartered a big bag of vegetables for 5 gallons of milk last week. I have a minor dairy intolerance, but it seems worth it to me to live with...
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Fisher Cat
Yesterday Alanna was looking out the window when she noticed an animal running down the stream bank. She called me over in time for me to get a look at...
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Excellent Pork
The bacon Garth cured is done now. The smokiness of the bacon is a little more "grill" than is ideal, but the meaty flavors are top-notch. We just had a...
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Grazing Pigs
I don't have any photos of my pigs grazing. They mostly rooted when I rotated them around the pasture last year and there is still snow on frozen soil here...
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The Meals of Just-ish, Part III: A Glass of Lukewarm Water Consumed in a Beige Room on a Mild, Slightly Overcast Day
Note: If you don’t understand what’s happening here, this post will bring you up to speed. As if the endless winter wasn’t punishment enough, the north has now begun bombarding...
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Breeding Dissension
The bull hardly came to my waist, a good foot shorter than the cows beside him. As they stood in a tight ring, peeling flakes of hay off of a...
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