We found out a couple of days ago that Baby, the wonderful goat we milk twice a week, was attacked by a dog that got into their pin last Sunday 🙁 Her owner thinks she will be OK, with just a few scrapes, though she is on antibiotics to ensure her proper healing. Regardless of the injuries, I imagine…
Last weekend, in the midst of our busy madness, we made two batches of beer; a Red Chile Chocolate Porter and a Belgian Golden Ale. Since the carboys “live” in our garage while they do their fermentation thing and the garage is pretty cold in the winter, Tool Lady did a lot of research on how to keep them a…
OK, so tomatoes that have been outside and are brought inside to attempt to continue their lives throughout the winter in a nice sunny location is a bad idea…a really bad, gross, bug infested idea. Truth. Judy was right, it’s a good idea in theory and the pictures in the magazine looked promising, but it can go downhill very quickly.…
I had high hopes for our potatoes this year. I purchased 10 pounds of German Butterball seed potatoes last spring and added them to a few random (sprouting) potatoes we had laying around (a few red and a few purple). We had new beds and old beds to plant them in as well as a few garbage cans for the…
But I do find a great sense of satisfaction in feeding horn worms to our chickens. Especially after they’ve successfully destroyed several tomatoes. Stupid worms.
I think my heart has broken. OK, that might be a bit dramatic, but it’s almost true. Here’s the deal…I thought I planted several Butternut Squash seeds this spring, but now I am positive that I didn’t. The plantings would have given us a delicious and bountiful harvest this fall and the heartbreak comes because they are my absolute favorite…
