What my hubby and 6 of my kids did this afternoon More details
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A few of you asked to see our pantry after all the canning. My kitchen is not especially huge, but I’m lucky to have a really nice-sized pantry. The space is triangle-shaped, with two sides of the triangle taken up with deep shelving and the third side of the triangle being double doors...
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This week we have devoted a few hours to freezing some of our abundant corn crop.  It’s a fairly simple project, but after three people in two days asked me how we do this, I thought it might be worth offering a brief tutorial here. Start by husking the corn and removing all the silks.  ...
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This past week I have been sucked into the garden/canning vortex. We’ve been given free picking rights to a friend’s apricot and plum trees. Plus the garden is exploding: cukes, peppers, zucchini, corn, and the beginnings of the tomato crop. Saturday yielded a couple dozen each of cucumbers, corn, and tomatoes,...
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You might remember that this spring we got 18 chickens with the plan of having a flock of egg-layers. The feed store only had straight run chicks, so we figured we’d just make chicken dinner out of whatever roosters we happened to get. Well, roosters we had in abundance. Loud ones. And...
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We’ve been eating chard out of the greenhouse for awhile, but today I picked our first 2 zucchini, along with a handful of snow peas, which we enjoyed in a yummy stirfry for lunch.  Yeah!!  Summertime, here we come!
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Aren’t they cute????? You can click on the links to enlarge each picture– and if you’d like to see my 4yo’s whole face! Technorati Tags: chickens
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My adorable hubby is sharing seed starting secrets over on his blog for anyone who’s interested.
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Starting your own seeds indoors is the best way to get an economical start on a garden.  One of these days my husband will be putting up a post with all the details, but I wanted to give a brief answer to those of you who are eager to get going.   Our last frost...
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