Seasons
More of May Days!
Please! If May first and second are any indications of what this month could be like most of the time, more please mum! Blogging Report I have to apologize for the whole comment situation. I am under, have been for quite a while, spam attack. I even accidentally erased some comments from a couple of … Continue reading
May Day Report
May Day and Mid-Spring Report. (This next week is smack dab middle of spring and full of some of the bestest silly holidays!) Spring so far… what a wild ride! We’ll start with the Market Garden… Market Garden Report Part One Here in the Puget Sound region we had one of the strangest winters. … Continue reading
Raising Grain
Did you read that as raising cain, Dear Reader? Well usually, I am, but today it’s just grain. Yup, I’m off on another horticulture adventure. This time I’m attempting to be a grain grower. Today was the big shove off, the bon voyage party happened. 3 – 160 sq. ft beds planted, one to barley, … Continue reading
Winter Knitting
I just now used this potholder. It was knitted up this last month and I was fairly disappointed in the design so it just sat by my knitting waiting to undergo scrutiny on what all needs to be changed. But just now I needed to grab the tea kettle off of the wood stove and … Continue reading
What Does the Farmer Say?
I’m sure those of you connected to the internet, oops, guess that’s all of you, have seen “What Does the Fox Say?”. I found it hilarious, at a time when I needed a good chortle, tear streaming chortle. My good friend sent me “What Does the Farmer Say” it was cute but I had yet … Continue reading
Fall Fermenting With Pictures!
I purchased Sandor Katz’s The Art of Fermentation and I have fallen in love with fermenting everything. Well, I have stopped at fermenting the dogs. Pickles, relish, I’ve even started doing naturally fermented root beers…have I mentioned that I love fermented stuff? Oh, I see I have. I just looked back over my … Continue reading
The First Half of the Last Day of Summer
Marking this day as significant because it is the last full day of summer, I’d have to mark it, at least the first half, as unusually brutal as well. As you know Dear Reader, this is our big state fair time and we are always involved in some way, Bet more so than I or … Continue reading
Getting Tucked In
Dear Reader, I need to quit thinkin’ I have until October 15th to get things ready for frost. First off, it isn’t like it only takes one afternoon to do everything, second, it’s not like it is always on October 15th. It’s an average date! And average means in between early and late! And especially when … Continue reading
Damages and Images: Part Two, Clean Up Begins
Continued from yesterday morning Since I have been in earth moving mode and knowing I need a decent parking place for visitors to the Farm and Market Shed I tackled the parking area yesterday (Tuesday). Removing all the peat like top soil, smoothing out the naked clay layer, ready for some foundational fill dirt … Continue reading
Damages and Images: Part One, the Wonder and the Havoc
Three weeks ago, on January seventeenth, the whole of the Pacific Northwest received a large dumping of snow overnight, on top of a fairly typical earlier snowing, short lived and melty, on the fifteenth and sixteenth. Nearly as soon as we woke up on the eighteenth and were … Continue reading
