Animals
- Springtime Delicacies
One of the many things that we look forward to in the spring,is duck eggs.Every spring we find duck eggs along the bank of the pond on an almost daily basis. Not this spring, however...no... this spring there have been no...and will be no duck eggs....
- Of Morels And Manure
With a beautiful Spring backdrop,I squeezed as much out of a sunny yesterday as I could. With several days of rain on the horizon,I felt a certain urgency to get a lot of items checked off my Spring chore list.Fasten your seatbelt,here goes.... 5:30...
- Of Mushrooms And Pigs
There is a craggy old apple tree in our orchard(a truly magical tree)that produces no more apples,and looks sort of scary. It is a tree that we will never chop down, however,because the soil above its roots is home to the elusive morel mushroom.Each...
- Spuds
Last year's garden boxes yielded an impressive harvest of sweet potatoes.Considered a "super food", this yummy root packed with beta carotene is one of my family's favorites.This is just a small sampling of our yield. Planting our garden...
- More Signs Of A Wet Summer
An increase in the toad population leads me to believe our total rainfall has been greater than average this summer. There are other signs around the farm, too. The rain barrels are always full...and we do use them for routine watering. Today, I found...
Animals
Fungi for a Fun Guy
One of the Christmas presents that I bought Hubbs this year
was two "grow your own mushroom" kits.
A week before Christmas, two boxes of mushroom compost arrived.
Hubbs added water to his two boxes and set them in the pantry on the floor
beneath the shelves....constant temperature, little light.
Within a week, tiny mushrooms erupted and grew and grew.
Today we harvested those mushrooms.
Portabella...
and White Button...
These boxes will continue to produce new mushrooms
that we can harvest every two weeks or so,
for several months.
Part of today's harvest was cleaned and sauteed for
our breakfast omelets.
Fresh farm eggs with fresh spinach, fresh mushrooms
and aged gouda cheese....Yum!!
The rest of the mushrooms were cleaned and placed in the refrigerator
for use in Sunday's dinner.
If you are interested in growing your own mushrooms,
you can order a kit here.
- Springtime Delicacies
One of the many things that we look forward to in the spring,is duck eggs.Every spring we find duck eggs along the bank of the pond on an almost daily basis. Not this spring, however...no... this spring there have been no...and will be no duck eggs....
- Of Morels And Manure
With a beautiful Spring backdrop,I squeezed as much out of a sunny yesterday as I could. With several days of rain on the horizon,I felt a certain urgency to get a lot of items checked off my Spring chore list.Fasten your seatbelt,here goes.... 5:30...
- Of Mushrooms And Pigs
There is a craggy old apple tree in our orchard(a truly magical tree)that produces no more apples,and looks sort of scary. It is a tree that we will never chop down, however,because the soil above its roots is home to the elusive morel mushroom.Each...
- Spuds
Last year's garden boxes yielded an impressive harvest of sweet potatoes.Considered a "super food", this yummy root packed with beta carotene is one of my family's favorites.This is just a small sampling of our yield. Planting our garden...
- More Signs Of A Wet Summer
An increase in the toad population leads me to believe our total rainfall has been greater than average this summer. There are other signs around the farm, too. The rain barrels are always full...and we do use them for routine watering. Today, I found...