Happy Monday everyone! According to the Farmer’s Almanac, we are in for a cold, wet winter! I’ll take the snow, but am hopeful the cold part is a normal cold and not a frigid one! We are planning two hoop houses in the backyard this year in which to over winter…
Apple season is officially upon us and, I have to say, I am so incredibly excited about it! Since we’ve processed all 150 pounds of gifted apples, it’s finally time to start harvesting the apples from our own tiny trees! Now, we put in our apple trees just a few…
Happy Monday everyone! The past week has brought us all kinds of weather…clear and cold, cloudy and rainy, clear and warm…short sleeve days followed by two layers of long sleeves and then short sleeves again. Welcome to fall in Santa Fe! The garden and chickens don’t like it very much,…
Happy Monday everyone!!! I didn’t take many pictures this week (I was too busy taking pictures of our guests and the shenanigans that occurred with said guests 😉 ). Luckily, the lack of pictures is not representative of what’s actually coming in from the garden! While the tomato tally is lower this…
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.
Happy Monday everyone! Amazingly, in this time of bountiful harvests, I haven’t actually been harvesting very often! Not because there wasn’t anything to harvest, but because other life-happenings have been getting in the way. Nothing to worry about though, everything’s fine…just very busy these days (is this becoming a theme/habit?).…
After making several batches of rhubarb jam earlier this summer, I was kind of at a loss as to what else to make with our last harvest of rhubarb. So, I asked Tool Lady to find something that looked good to her and she did! Pickled rhubarb? Who knew? Well,…
Bees amaze me. Absolutely. When we checked on our bees in the spring, we were able to see that they had officially made it through the winter and were healthy. They had the same queen that they came to us with (marked with a little dot on her back and…