Friday, February 17, 2012

Farming Isn't Talking, It's Growing Food

Semi-Dwarf Meyer Lemon Tree

Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon with lemons from our tree.

Chard from one of the hoop houses


Valentine's Dinner: Wild Salmon with lemon, Wild rice, blanched chard with fermented carrots and organic avocado

Chard, Kale, Radishes, Parsley and Lettuce



Saturday, February 11, 2012

Winter Update



A-frame greenhouse with our three hoop houses and the cold frame behind them. We planted beets and cabbage in the cold frame today and last week planted chard and kale and broccoli raab and radishes in the hoop house to the left.





Carrots we bought from Gemini farms

Ginger carrots


Once we added salt and enough water to cover all the carrots they went in the closet to ferment for a week or two.


Fermentation closet; in there now is porter and red chile porter, apple cider and carrots, both ginger and garlic

Pantry above the washer 
Burning scrap wood 

Flower beds made from hollowed out pine logs 

Happy hens

Friday, December 30, 2011

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Being busy + Dead Computer = Nobloglongtime

Hop trellis up the house

Sunflowers from last season's seed

Hops on the right and chard and lettuce planted to the left near the footings

Kale from last fall that we overwintered and planted from the last crop's seed

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Life > Blog

Batter for homemade/ homegrown waffles

Waffles with our squash and nuts and stuff...delicious

Bar-Be-Que

Marigold


MInt

newly transplanted hops

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Spring Has Sprung


A view from the land behind our house.




Pullets are growing fast:

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Growing Food

We have a lot going on here this season. In our new hoop house we have seedlings germinating!

-Mizuna
-Spinach
-Kale
-Carrots
-Lettuce

some of these are already up and we just need to cover it up a little more to increase moisture and germination.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Propigating Hops From Rhizomes

When we first started this garden blog a few years ago we got a female Chinook hop plant. It has since given us bitter and aromatic flowers every season that have been used in all the homebrews from the Spotty Dog. It is also spreading like crazy and it is time to divide it up a bit.

Baby Turkeys!

We got one Bourbon Red and a Broad Brested Bronze