when he decided that he needed a spoof on Jason from Friday the 13th, having a regular day on the farm, tongue in cheek, who was i to say no. He did the photos as selfies and i did the backend work on them.
The horses need their hay!
Its maple season, the sap is running!
Oh, did you bring us mealworms and cuddles
Lets top up the wood box
Relaxing on the deck with a coffee after chores are done
There is a joy in being creative, be it whatever floats your boat! Its been a limiting week on some things but it was so fun to watch him get excited about the idea, create his outfit, storyboard it and then make it happen over a course of a couple days, I enjoyed my end of the project, and remember, farmers, homesteaders, and to a point gardeners and more, we never get days off so we might as well play when we can 🙂
How can it be Friday already, and Friday the 13th to boot, speaking of boots, i am currently wearing a air cast boot along with a wrist brace as i took a good old fashioned fall a week ago.
When i fell, i knew from the level of pain that i had for sure hurt my foot, not rolled my ankle, i have done that before this was different, a very different deeper kind of pain and while we got me up, and got me in and leg up and iced, it only took me a short while to write Dear Hubby that as soon as he was done work, we needed to head to the ER to get x-rays
Farmers, homesteaders, Gen X whatever you want to call us, we are as stubborn as the day is long, i do understand the irony of telling him to finish up his work day first but honestly, i was in for hours wait at the er, why not get those work hours in.
Of we headed and much to my surprise, 7 hours, and 18 x-rays later in a combo of my foot, my wrist and my hip, i was out the door $225 poorer with a wrist brace and a air cast boot, while the ER visit was covered, the medical equipment was not, now it might be possible that maybe we can see if we can get any back though our personal medical coverage from work, we will see. They gave me meds for the pain and they were nice for the few hours they lasted and then back to over the counter meds for that.
Still to be fair, within 24 hours i was called for my CT scan to be booked and shortly after that, i got the call to book with the orthopedist at the hospital for the start of my follow up care. While i am happy that things are lined up, i can already tell my wrist is fine, it will heal and heal well, my hip is bruised and i have some other bruises and even a good scrape but my foot is another matter, a week later and the deep lines of bruising are still appear and growing. To put my weight down wrong can still take my breath away and while i have made a point of getting downstairs once for a short while every two days, i need to learn how to do the stairs safely, i have been mainly living on the second floor.
The master bedroom is huge, so half of it has been moved into a mini dining room with a table/chair and more for me to work at, Dear Hubby did a full week of Teli-work, he had already booked friday off so it was a short week but this allowed him to give me a helping hand as we sorted things out.
Thankfully i can still find smaller projects to keep me busy and allow me to use my grey matter and my good hand and foot lol Seed starting, willow carving, writing and much more is on the go.
Lots of things going on in the background, we are in the waiting game to find out if DH’s job will be effected by reductions taking place or not, we have been though this before, its nerve racking to say the least and i know so many are on the same pins an needles.
This is a good year to make sure that the farm gives back as much as possible in terms of both savings and earnings. Last years drought was brutal and we will wait to see how many of the spring planted in 2025 will be alive this spring.
I have not decided yet if i am going to let any of my current hens sit this year, i was planning on adding in meat chicks this spring but i am thinking that it might need to be a fall raising. I will have lots of ducklings as i added in four new duck hens for a total of seven hens and two drakes for the duck breeding flock, with those numbers i will have both lots to raise and lots of sell if wanted!
This year is going to be a grow and put up two years on a few things that are quite low in the canning pantry, an its also a clear the jars year, if its over 3 years in age and we are not eating it, then i will use it as fodder or compost and get my jar back into use, filled with what we do in fact eat!
It will be a lean year in terms of out sourced imputes plants/fruit tree wise, it will be a production year in terms of wild fruits and foraged items added in, plus bird line nursery starts, more on that later.
What’s new in your world? Did you keep up on the global news? Local news? Stayed away from the news? Are you in the now or are you planning and plotting? Are you worried about your job? While you be looking for more ways to lower costs by using your farm/homestead/garden? Looking to try and find a way to earn a little as well? What is your plan on that?
“Most green lacewings have golden or copper eyes and are found on foliage. They are poor, erratic flyers and strongly attracted to light. Some 25 species occur in Canada, the most common of which are the common green (Chrysoperla carnea) and the goldeneyed (Chrysopa oculata), found in all provinces and territories except Nunavut.”
Tiny, bad flyers and o so fragile wings and for most folks unnoticed, their larvae, however, are entirely different beasts, being voracious predators, and are often nicknamed ‘Antlions’ or ‘Aphid-lions’ pertaining to their ferocious behavior and enormous appetite for Aphids and other small invertebrates.
We want these in our organic gardens, the green are most likely to be in our gardens, with the brown more likely in the food forests or more naturalized areas
3 Top Reason’s to want these amazing friends and their offspring in your gardens and yards, no matter where you live! Big or small, they are worth giving them what they need to increase their numbers.
1 – Rapid Reproduction Each female will lay several hundred eggs, each lacewing larve can eat up to 200 pests before it is ready to move on to the next stage, they are a powerhouse indeed! The females overwinter in leaf cover and come out for the first of TWO hatches per year. This means you do not need many females to successfully overwinter in order to rapidly build a army of larve, and its timing works with out Zone 5a timing for second fall planting timing.
2- Eco= Friendly Pest Control, by hosting and providing what they need, they will help you in your organic battle protecting your plants, soil and more
3-Adults offer Pollination ability’s adult lacewings visit flowers for nectar and pollen, contributing to the pollination process as they move from bloom to bloom. We are very lucky indeed that many of our favorite’s are theirs as well
Added Bonus, they are so fun to try for good Macro Photography on!
Now you might be wondering, why is she posting about these guys now?
Why because we are starting flowers from seed and we are planning our gardens right now!
Adult lacewings don’t eat pests; they need nectar and pollen to survive and reproduce. By planting specific flowers, you’re essentially laying out a buffet that says, “Welcome, make yourself at home!”
Look for plants with small, open flowers that make nectar and pollen easily accessible. Here are some top picks:
In the garden itself
Dill and Fennel, they are magnets for so many beneficial types including all types of lacewings, their flat topped style of flowers are perfect landing pads and amazing spots to try for that macro photography!
In the flower beds or garden edges look to Cosmos and Angelica, again anything is open single flowering type will work, the truth is for most things if you can avoid double blooms its best, they are bred to be showy for us, but not great feeders for pretty much anything
For both a mix of native and flower beds, look to the ASTERS, these are idea in gardens, flower beds and meadows/food forests, they can get huge! Check out that amazing wild grown aster plant in my park garden, it was covered in small native bees and so much more! (Farmgal Photography is for hire both locally and i will travel for the right project!)
Providing Shelter and Water
Beyond food, lacewings need places to rest, hide from predators, and find water, especially during hot, dry spells.
Think about creating a layered habitat.
Ideally leave some taller grasses and shrubs, in the flower bed, perhaps a lovely clump of grass to add texture will also serve well in this way, for the garden, well placed fruit bushes on edges will work very well. Shallow pans of pebbled water left out tucked under a bush or near good feeding stations will help keep them in your desired areas in those hot summer days.
Winter time, they need leaf litter to successfully overwinter and that also means no early clean up in the spring, so if you know you are going to clean up a certain area due to it being a early spring micro zone, don’t leave leaf litter there, have a spot near the garden that you leave it for them to find and spend the winter in that you know you can let it be.
What is your most common Lacewing in your personal neck of the woods? Have you spotted them over the years? There are going to be a lot of new gardeners starting and lots of older gardeners expanding this year and years to come, a little planning for eco friendly, extreme low cost ways to help your garden thrive is well worth a tiny bit of planning on your part to invite and keep these guys around.
if you truly can’t find any, start looking for the adults and if need be carefully move a few of them to your garden area giving them all they need, they will quickly settle in and become fast friends!
Welcome to Waste Not, we will find a way series. This will be a very broad coverage, it could be a way to prepare and freeze something, it could be away to take a leftover and turn it into a new meal, it could be a way to take odd bits and use them up.
How they are used up will also be varied, perhaps it will be eaten by us, or the dogs, or as fodder, or composted in different ways, hints and tips for small spaces, small gardens, or big gardens or homestead or the small flock owner.
Today we are going to talk about potato’s that got away from us, there was a potato sale on and extra ten pound bags were picked up, one bag got turned into boiled potato’s and grated hashbrowns, half of the other bag got used for fresh use but not fast enough.
Have you notice how fast food turns these day, i have at times in the past months walked away from buying potato’s due to their very Poor condition, if i have to cut away 40 to 50% of them to use them, i am not buying them! and shame on the store for selling them!
These guys had sprouted and so i have continued the process for them to be well started for planting, they got cut for a good strong eye and will be air dried to cure their skin before being planted. I will come back and add in the dried photo. They have been placed in a cool but well ventilated space with no direct sunlight on the cardboard box, as it will help them dry out.
Which is how you take 6 potato’s and turn them into 13 plants! That ten pound bag was bought at 1.99, the feed bags are free, the soil/straw combo was not but it will continue to feed the soil and garden after use as well, the cardboard box was included from the store and will be reused afterwards till its composted
Each of these will be planted in groupings into feed bags for early starting in our seedling starting area and moved out as soon as possible for very early spring small potato harvests.
Yes i know they are not seed potato’s, yes i have those on order, yes i will be planting like normal in the gardens, but i am not going to waste these and the ability to get them back into my food system.
the small bits that were leftover, i had two choices with, cook in the next feed the chicken batch or compost, as i do NOT like to feed sprouted potato’s raw or cooked to anyone or anything, into the compost it goes!
What is the last thing you saved? What little bit did you find that you used up or figure out how to add to broth making or feed out as fodder, and for fodder, i am including all those house dogs, or small chicken flock owners or even those meal worm growers etc
The question really is what kind of Ice storm are we going to have and that is still up in the air because it could shift and that slight shift could mean a big difference.. what kind of difference?
Are we having this kind of ice storm as we have had in the past?
This kind of storm will drop power lines for days, leaving us to cook on the wood stove and wearing ice cramps on boots for chores and pretty much close things down for a few days to weeks I took this photo from a ice storm here on the farm 11 years ago
Or we could have this kind of ice storm, still going to take down trees, be slippy, work from home but the odds are the power if out will be a day or two and it will melt off without much damage
This type of ice storm means i am out with my camera because while you need to waddle to be safe, its just pretty out there and the odds are highly in your favorite that they will just melt, crack off and have limited damage to trees and more
They are not the same, but the prep for them is, because there is NO way to know what one we will be getting, so extra water needs to be drawn for livestock, for the household, laundry will be fully caught up, extra wood will be brought to the close porch for the wood stove, any extra space in the freezers will have jugs and or any other freezer safe filled and added for extra drinking water if needed but mainly to keep the freezers colder for longer, the camping cooler will come up to act as the temp fridge
We are in the dark purple zone fully, so 10 to 25mm but i am hearing that it could be up to 40 mm
The biggest issue is that the ground water is moving right now and the sump pump is for the first time in 8 plus months running and its running hard which means that when the power goes out, that there will be water in the cellar, its designed for this, everything is raise up for this very reason but its still something that is a pain the , well you know what, unless you run the genny 24/7 to keep the sump pump going, its going to get damp down there.
While its not good for the seedlings and plants to lose their lights, they can be brought upstairs if needed and thankfully i do not have eggs in the incubator yet so i don’t have to worry about that. Charge the battery chargers and so on and plan for possible wood stove cooking and extra uses of the shuttle chefs and we enjoy the sunshine right now and wait!
German Giant Radish has been added to my radish growing this year for a couple of reasons. Ah Radishes, one of the fastest growing crops you can get in the garden. Lets talk about this amazing plant, you have summer radish, which will give you sweeter end results in cooler spring/fall plantings, spicy hotter versions in the heat of summer but are still ideal to be planted into shade spots and then you have winter radishes that are bigger and will extend into early frosts
In Canada Radishes are a very common veggie, when i was growing up, you had small round red with white flesh and depending on when harvested, they could be mild or hot! or HOT! Eaten whole, maybe with a bit of salt or dipped into a dressing or sliced into rounds and added to a salad.
Boy, were we missing out, i still remember being the first time i was served roasted hot radishes, it was in Helsinki, in Finland that first got to try so many different ways that radish could be prepared and i have been hooked. Then came our local food share program and suddenly winter radish became something that i could get regular, why i can’t buy Daikon everywhere is beyond me, the closest store that carries it local to me regular year round is 45 to 60 min away depending on traffic
I am growing six different types of radish on the farm this year, I will be growing
Cherry Bells “Here is a delightful looking summer radish with 2.5-5 cm diameter cherry-red roots that have a pleasing, mild flavoured white flesh. Cherry Belle holds great potential for extending the season as it forces well under glass and maintains its superior eating quality for a long time. An ideal variety for late spring and early summer plantings. Introduced in 1949.”
Easter Egg “This is a colourful addition to the radish family. Stunning intense shades of white, red, purple, pink and violet roots make this tasty radish a visual, as well as culinary, treat. The roots are large and smooth skinned, flesh is firm and crisp”
French Breakfast “An older variety grown since at least the late 1870’s. Produces rich scarlet red roots with white tips that are crisp, mild and surprisingly sweet. A real favorite that has stood the test of time!
New to the farm and to me are
Crimson Giant : H. A. Dreer, in a 1910 booklet that they published, had this to say about ‘Crimson Giant’ radishes, “This variety is suitable both for forcing or early planting out of doors. A remarkable feature of this Radish is that it will grow double the size of other round red forcing Radishes and still remain solid. The ordinary forcing Radish, after growing to the size of two or three inches in circumference, becomes pithy, while the Crimson Giant will grow to six and seven inches in circumference and still remain solid and juicy, free from all signs of becoming soft.”
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German Giant ” German Giant is a solid red colored, round shaped, radish with crisp, white, and pungent flesh. It resists getting woody or spongy and can be harvested from golf ball size on up to about the size of a cue ball. To achieve the larger sized radishes, provide them ample space by thinning the seedlings to at least one-inch apart.”
and of course i will be growing Daikon Radish a winter radish, i will do a totally different post on tillage radish, which i have brought in a whole pound of seed on for use to help in my new garden area that has some of the worst soil i have ever found on the farm!
They can be grown in pots, they can be grown in flower beds, tucked here and there and replanted every two weeks for a growing supply, no one is going to notice if you pop a radish seed in and around your flowers, it will just be green undergrowth to the person walking by.
Radishes should be on your garden grow list and your seed saving list! One of the fastest growing plants to get food on the plate, pickled radish works amazingly well for preserving, Almost everything about them is edible, leaves, radish ball root, seed pods and the seeds can be ground themselves as well as sprouted with ease
While having been grown globally since the time of Egyptian and Roman times and most likely before that, it is a outstanding plant that can be grown in cooler climates to great success! Time to explore its many choices and add some new types to your garden plans!
Globally Radish can be grown for their roots, for their seed oil, for their green tops, they come in many different colors, sizes ranging from tiny to the size of basketballs. They are a powerhouse of a food!
A half-cup serving of raw radish slices (about 58 grams)
Calories: 9.3
Total Carbohydrates: 2 g
Fiber: 0.9 g
Sugar: 1.1 g
Total Fat: 0.1 g
Saturated Fat: 0.02 g
Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.03 g
Monounsaturated Fat: 0.01 g
Trans Fat: 0 g
Protein: 0.4 g
Sodium: 22.6 mg (1% DV*)
Vitamin C: 8.6 mg (10% DV)
Folate: 14.5 mcg (4% DV)
Potassium: 135 mg (3% DV)
*Daily Value: Percentages are based on a diet of 2,000 calories a day.
What types of Radish are you growing this year? Do you eat Radishes regular in your meals? Do you eat them fresh? Fermented? Pickled? Roasted? What is your favorite type? Do you only eat summer types or do also use winter type? What is your favorite way to eat them?
The events globally over the past week will be felt in ever widening ripples and one of them will be food costs, last year i was able to pick up a good load of smaller straw bales, the mini kind perfect for the porches for Halloween in town and the standard kind for the farm use. I was thrilled to find a new supplier that is just up the road a bit, close enough for him to swing by and drop the wagon off and leave it overnight for us to unload etc. I knew that with the new land we turned last year being as poorly as it was that I needed extra straw for the garden, as well as having double load’s of wood mulch dropped off
Weather got a touch wonky, and has decided to give us a week of false spring, sap is running hard and it rained, a lot.. we didn’t get the worse of it but we still got a good amount and our best house side micro climate was fully melted out when we woke this morning.. there are four plus feet of snow still covering all the kitchen garden beds and areas.
While i am not a big clean up the yard in the spring to early as i know that lots of things can be overwintering, everything that was raked up was moved to a area to the side so it still has a chance at least of hatching etc., the space got raked out and we made temp straw bale walled microclimates Straw bales used in wall insulation have a R value of 30 to 35 but this will be less do to the way they are being used but they are still going to be very helpful!
What we are calling Block #2 will have a u shaped pea vine climber on the back wall and two bale sides, i will add in fresh garden soil around 4 to 6 inches to start the earliest of peas, a row of radish will be placed in front of the peas in a u shape as well, the front row of this bed will be filled with Winter Sow jugs to help grow spring seedlings for transplanting, giving us both a head start on those transplants and saving room in our indoor growing sets ups The ground still needs to thaw some to get the tines fully down but we have a couple days coming of plus 10c and i am sure by the end of it they will be down where we want them, we will NOT be planting these out till after the next cold snap
Block #1 will have a cover made to place over to trap the heat in much more then Block #2 This block will have soil blend added at a depth of 6 inches and will be planted into radish, salad micro greens and beets and depending on what the night time temps look like, some of our started smaller lettuce greens might be possible or will be certainly added by the end of march. This set up will allow us to plant and grow March/April and depending even into early may while we get the kitchen garden prepped and ready for cool season planting and growing.
As you can see we have a rain barrel set up at the end and so ideally i will be able to use rain water when possible. These will be very tightly planted and as things get taken out for fresh eating,
Pipsqueak was watching carefully and ready to give a helping paw lol, i expect these warm bales will be a purr pride magnet for naps when the weather is fine, but we will see as they do love sleeping on the hay.
Hubby and i are still in talks about what will be placed over the top, I expect it will be a sheet of plastic stapled to either 2 by 2 or larger branches cut from norway maples that have been coppiced and have very nice long poles ready to be cut and used in the garden in multiple ways this year to create a lighter weight plastic top but if the cats are going to like it enough, then maybe we will use one of our sheets of plexiglass instead so its quite solid
Once these are done, we will be able to pull them apart easily and use the straw in the gardens as it was intended for mulch this year.
Do you have a heat sink that warms faster? Consider looking around to see what you might be able to find to create a faster producing micro zone for your kitchen and your plate, grow for speed, grow for calories and grow for micro nutrients. When it comes to super early spring production like this, you are growing for micro greens, eat your thinning’s for the beets and radishes, roast the radish as well as eat them fresh an spring sweet, eat your beets as tiny wee ones , remember everything other then roots are edible on your peas, greens, flowers and of course the pods.
This is very much grow what your family will eat, do not try new things in these spaces, grow for your plate and crowd those spaces, you are not going to grow these to full size, you do not need full size spacing, look to square foot garden spacing, I will share details on the plantings, what it cost me in seed, and what i got in harvest vs what that would cost me in my local stores.. right now a small bag of radish, that has around 8 average size radish is $6 dollars.. I just stood there and stared, shook my head and walked away and that was last week price points.
Farmgal Tip, get your fertilizer now! maybe get a big bag or two enough for say two or three or five years, put it in a safe dry space.
4 cups broth of your choice, i used veggie broth but this could easily be made with bone broth of your choice
1 large potato, peeled and cubed
1 large carrot, peeled and cubed (this carrot could be replaced with celery, or turnip or squash or sweet potato, pick a root veggie you like the flavor on and it will work, use what you have in your pantry and fridge here folks)
2 cups of fresh microgreens, if using homegrown and ideally for cost savings you should
Salt, Pepper to taste, i also used a seasoning salt I like, you are wanting to balance out the flavor but not really add to it, just enhance.
large heaping tablespoon of greek yogurt or sour cream or at least a swirl of heavy cream
Extra ideas, a sprinkle of chili flakes on top, add in some crunch with some croutons if desired
In a med sized pot on med heat, add in your broth, diced veggies, seasonings and cook till they are fork tender, allow to cool just slightly, while cooling, give your sprouts a rough chop and add to the soup, allow the heat to wilt them as you stir them in, then using either a stick blender or a heat proof blender, blend your soup till smooth. Taste, and adjust your salt and cracked black pepper as required.
Add a large heaping tablespoon of your best thick Greek yogurt, a sprinkle of chili flakes if desired.
Serve sizes, two main meal portions or four small portions to serve with side salad and bread etc
Here in Ottawa valley in Ontario, garden zone 5a it is the month where ideally we will be pruning hard fruit trees of all kinds. Long time readers know that i have been and continue to be active with other amazing fellow local gardeners to creating local food sheds.
These photos are used with permission given as they were taken at one of my “gifted” out placement spots.. this is a wind zone, the wind blows from the open farm fields all the time, unlimited water and this owner has been excellent about having me out to help her in terms of pruning the tree, what you are looking at is one trees fruit.
One of these ripple effect programs is Sib C peaches, a number of years ago a lovely women in ottawa grew the “mother tree” with great success and she shared saved peach pits wide and far across the community, i got a small bag of pits myself and in the end also was gifted someone’s pits as well, in total i raised 15 peach seedlings, I split them out among friends, some had different soil types, some had shelter belts, others wide open wind swept placements, other still were one zone warmed and I also grew my own here on the farm in different placements.
Those first peach trees have come full circle and are now the proud producers of bushels of peaches, with the best pits from different trees being selected, shared out and in some cases grown out, last year i hand selected, grew out and sold into my local community another 100 plus peach trees.
I am uncertain given the drought on how many of my young peach trees will be alive come this spring, and my oldest need some heavy pruning this year as it was missed last year. I look forward to hearing how it goes with different farms and gardens and i will be excited to collect peach pits this fall from the biggest, most perfect fruits for saving, sharing and some limited growing out.
There is something wonderful knowing that currently dozens of families and soon enough hundreds of families are enjoying locally grown fruit that however briefly came though my world and onward in hopefully ripple effects for years to come. The idea that a child when i am long gone will be reaching up and picking sun warmed ripe peaches in sept or early oct and biting in with juice running down their arm makes me smile.
I am happy to say that many places now offer Sib C peaches for sale online across canada, some are even doing as i am, selectively breeding for size, texture and taste. I am hopeful that will continue to see a impact in the future as we all work towards bringing these amazing hardy white fleshed peaches into the gardens and kitchens across canada and beyond.
I am looking forward to donating one or more of these to our towns new community garden that is working with our local middle and high school, they have a greenhouse, a garden and are working on a small orchard, with the culinary class making food from the fresh offerings, i see peach cobbler and pies and more in their future!
If you would like to add a tree or three to your own garden or homestead, I will be offering peach pits late fall for those that would like to try growing themselves and we will have limited peach seedlings available for sale spring of 2027
Good Afternoon to my fine fellows, what a time we find ourselves in right now. I do understand that here in Canada, and i expect in many other counties that we are very much seeing the K economy happening in daily life. While those in the upper part of the K can afford their current lifestyle, they are not immune to inflation.
The Gal in the Garden Series is coming back in full force this year but it will also have a few different sub groups added to it, you will be able to tell in a glance which ones it is. so let me introduce
Gardening in Hard Times
Like so many people, we are currently waiting to see what and how the next round of layoff’s will or won’t effect Dear Hubby, what we do know is that with the new back to office mandate means that he will be needing to commute more days of the week. I would like to say that Dear Hubby had been working a hybrid home/office successfully for 15 plus years before it was made a “thing”
This does effect the bottom line in terms of direct costs and somewhere those costs need to be made up in terms of savings and lets face it straight up, when it comes to certain things you have little say or control on the costs of things, those bills are going to come in and they will need to be paid.
However there are ways to save money if you have the time and willingness to work on it, i am going to be coming at it from the homestead, garden, forage, local sourced and store sales (limited though they may be) Some of it will be old hat, others will be odd out of the box thinking!
I am gardening in a northern climate, zone 5a, which used to be a three season climate and is now a two season zone at best and with the past few years, its been as unpredictable as possible with flood years, drought years, wild weather events and more which has lead it to be a one harvest season on plantings that should be at least two per our frost free average dates.
There is a be as much focus on fodder for any and all household and homestead and farm animals, just like inflation is hitting us and what we put on our plates, so it is effecting feed costs and just like us, what we feed is reflected back in health and productivity
I will do my best to include a good amount of hard data for my local area, i am well aware that it will only be my part of canada, may places would have much higher prices and few might have lower, i would always be interested in hearing how it matches up in your own neck of the woods.
I have upgraded the website and that means i will be adding in video’s at times along with my photography and like always unless noted, all photography on the site is taken by me, its the real deal, not some random photo selected to match the subject matter.
For recipes, i will do my best to keep things short for those that just want the recipe and go, but you can expect a mix of longer, shorter and in some cases photo heavy posts, like always there is really no way to know what i will talk about!
I am sorry to have this rant, I might not even post this.. I most likely will and I am sure I will lose a reader or two.. but I have to write this.. If you live in an apartment or a tiny condo in the city, you can be many things.. You can be […]
Ok, its just going on record that we are going to be “in just in time mode” on most things this year. Let me give a example.. we have pulled at least a hundred or two wild parsnips but then we needed to focus on this or that.. and suddenly this week, we are like.. […]
Just another Day on the Farm 