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Snow day
It was inevitable, following my reprehensible actions. Late last week I expressed dismay (? well, at least disbelief) that I had not once this winter shoveled our driveway. It was very shortly...
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New Life
Must have done something right with the eggplant seeds this year. I was feeling behind, off to a late start on the seeds I usually start in February. So I soaked the eggplant seeds for a day before...
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Death of an Orchard
What you see here are the remains of an orchard. An orchard I drive by often, on the grounds of an empty house. Last year, on my drives, I watched as the trees blossomed in billows of white that sent...
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Summerspring Comes, Maple Goes
One of our lovely egg customers mentioned reading our blog, and I realized how long it had been since we posted. Spring swooped in and carried us away, out into the yard, under the trees. We tapped...
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On Salad
Learning to overwinter greens was one of those lifechanging events for me, when I first started about 6 or 7 years ago. This year we’ve been eating out of the garden since February, when the hoop...
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“Dennis, there’s some lovely filth down here…”
This is my job today. Finish it up. Last week I rototilled the overgrown 15×20′ patch, after strategically removing a few straggling irises. This week I’ve managed to rake and get down to the deep...
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Westside Farmers Market in One Week!
We are going full tilt with work preparing to attend the market! We do all the gardening and growing work ourselves, around each of our other jobs, and it’s been really busy. We’re still tiny tiny...
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Chive Blossom
A little-known fresh spring delicacy we love is chive blossoms. Chives themselves are greeted with great enthusiasm for about a month in the early spring, when we’ve generally run out of onions,...
View ArticleOn tiredness
Home from the offices at 6:30pm, been there all day. Quick snack, no time for more, gotta use the daylight, when it’s not 90 degrees, or pouring down lightning and rain. Hurry and gather eggs. Out...
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Tomorrow’s Market!!
Short list of what we’ll be bringing to The WestSide Farmer’s Market tomorrow! Eggs - reserved egg orders will be held for pickup until 6pm, and unreserved eggs available on demand, while they last!...
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On Doing Enough
A month and a half now since we last posted. We talk about writing more, writing our stories, about documenting our farming more. We have eager readers telling us they love our blog and keep checking...
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rainsong
As I walked back from the east coop this morning, I could hear the gentle rain falling on the tree leaves more than I could feel it dropping on my naked arms. It was one of those quiet summer rains so...
View ArticleGina, Kitty
The new banner above is Gina, one of our yearling mother cats, acting like a kitten again. She had a nice litter of 5 kittens a couple months back, and is now enjoying a second kittenhood. We were...
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Funny People at the Market
One of the interesting parts about doing the farmers market has been observing people, and their funny interactions with produce. Sometimes it involves little experiments with human nature. For...
View ArticleFishin’
I went fishing tonight, at a family farm pond. I haven’t had my fly rods out in about 20 years or more, and haven’t seriously fished for much longer. But Brian said he threw three worms in last week...
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Fishin’ hole
So, to follow up my last fishin’ post, here’s a quick photo I took of the bluegill and bass heaven where I caught ‘em. Bass and bluegill heaven (at least as far as my fly casting is concerned) Just a...
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Mulch harvest
So, mowing our yard is not so much for keeping the neighbors happy at our tidiness (hah!) as it is a harvest. Our gardening style is, as much as possible, to mulch the place like mad to keep the...
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Zucchini chocolate chip yum
Zucchini Chocolate Chip Yum How much can I say about this healthy breakfast treat? A cup of coffee and a nice piece of Zucchini Chocolate Chip Yum. Ahhh. Oh, and that’s my favorite coffee cup, a...
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BLT with bean slaw for T
So, I just had to post our lunch today, or is it dinner. Our tomatoes have been SO incredibly good. They’ve also been bursting at the seams, the rains have been so frequent and the humidity high....
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Onion Harvest
I think I overdid it in the heat a bit today. I wouldn’t usually work out in the hottest part of a hot day, but several sources told me that severe thunderstorms were on the way for the afternoon....
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