• Grow

    Let the planting season officially begin!

    We didn’t know for sure when they might open up the flood gates…we were told sometime between “Holy weekend” and April 1st…and so yesterday afternoon, with the dogs barking anxiously and a strange truck stopped down by one end of our property line, we were happy to realize that it was the Mayordomo checking the line as all the debris…

  • Poultry

    I’d like to formally introduce you to…

    Red & Kitty 🙂 Since we’ve officially decided to keep our two Muscovy ducks as a mating pair into the foreseeable future, we have decided to give them names! (You know, unlike all of our other poultry that don’t get names because they have a greater potential to become dinner either by intention or necessity.) And, so, in keeping with the…

  • Grow

    Happy Spring!

    With a very busy weekend almost complete… Full of: Cultivating the garlic and up-potting tomatoes… Moving our compost pile and spending quality time with the ducks… Visiting a day-old calf and building a “living tent” for Ember (stay tuned)… Enjoying the sunshine and dirty, sweaty, down-in-the-dirt work… Sowing peas and beans and greens… & Feeling so very grateful for our…

  • Eat,  Poultry

    The first duck egg!

    I kid you not… Less than 24 hours after bringing home our ducks, we were gifted with our very first duck egg! I guess our pair is settling in nicely and enjoying their new digs just fine 🙂 We were all so surprised and so excited about it that we headed straight inside to cook it up and see how…

  • Poultry

    Ducks!!!

    Because we don’t have enough to do already… Because Kim is the Queen of Craigslist.. Because the bugs here are insane… Because we’re always up for learning about something new… Because sometimes the turn around time from idea to research to implementation is quite quick here… Because we enjoy challenging ourselves… And because we can… We have welcomed two Muscovy…

  • Everything Else,  Grow

    2016 Acequia Clean Up

    Next Saturday is technically Acequia Clean Up Day,  but with help at hand today (brother and daughter), we decided to clean out our portion of the acequia this weekend rather than waiting. There were leaves to be raked and moved to the garden and mole hill remnants to be shoveled out… There was trash to collect and glass to carefully pick…