Can you guess which one is the river and which one is the road (and that’s less water running through than early this morning)
No matter, we are stuck here! And the rain’s not over yet.
First order of the day was to move the chicken to higher - and drier - pasture, since the one where [...]
Read More..>>They love insects, worms, caterpillars, maggots, larvae, meat if they can get it. They do need animal protein for a balanced and healthy diet - which means also chicken and eggs healthy to eat - and delicious.
If anybody ever doubted that chickens are not vegetarians, they should have been here a few mornings ago, when [...]
Comments(8) I had never eaten homemade sauerkraut until I started to make it last year.
I can’t say that I really like the store-bought canned stuff - but I really like a Reuben sandwich, and you do need sauerkraut for that.
In my quest for more local homegrown or homemade food and in learning new (to me) [...]
Read More..>>This is Swiss Chard in the garden today, unprotected, after weeks of cold weather, night in the teens (F/- 7 C to -12 C) and days of bone-chilling howling winds with gusts at 50 miles/ h (80 km). Not pretty, right? Certainly not much to harvest…
This is Swiss Chard (and more) in the unheated hoop [...]
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