Bittersweet. Taking dear friends, companions, food, to freezer camp is never an easy day. Today was a big one. I know that it is easier to become detached from where food actually comes from, how it is grown and raised, animal or vegetable. So much is involved, and the further we get removed from modern, … Continue reading
Yesterday my neighbor drove a couple of hours to pick up 9 piglets to sell and raise for her family. My friend of meadow milking fame was taking three of them. “Now, I don’t have a crate, so I just made this nice soft hay bed for them in the back of my car. I … Continue reading
Yesterday. (BTW, the bull and Becca are both for sale, in case you know anyone.) Today. “Listen lady. Either we break this door down, or you bring us a snack. We’re warning you, we will throw a big fit when you are milking that cow, if you don’t feed us now! That man gives us … Continue reading
We tried everything, cow halters, ropes, dog leashes, pulling, pushing… nothing would get that fatty back across the river, so we had to bring in the big guns. Her short legs would have certainly meant she would have to swim in parts, float or be drug. Hmmm. This was definitely a two man job, and … Continue reading
The spring thaw has really arrived in the last few days. Some views from our ride home from school yesterday. Since it has been so warm, the river has begun to rise. Henny Penny decided that there was a lot to root around in across the river. She and the cows did not come home … Continue reading
Offal is not awful, and it is amazingly good for you, but it can elicit strong negative emotions especially from those who have never tried it. Our daughter thinks it’s funny to call liver mousse “cat food.” Even grass-fed people or those who hunt game can be squeamish over organ meats. I heard a friend … Continue reading
I tried to save as many as I could, but my two cases of paste tomatoes were ignored under more pressing things. I have to admit that almost 1/4 were turned into future pork chops and those fatties were excited! It’s nice to know that with pigs around, even when food does go to waste, … Continue reading
Green eggs and ham? Not really, but it does take time to make lovely marbled preserved eggs and brining fresh ham. Marbling eggs is a lovely tradition for a Seder plate, and for Easter, as the egg itself is gorgeously colored and infused with flavor. I am so grateful to have finally found a foolproof, … Continue reading
My amazing homesteading friends from Golden Goose Farm built their own cold smoker and have “smoking parties” whenever it is time to fire it up for smoking meats. Everyone brings their own brined or cured bacon or other meats and some wonderful Weston A. Price types of potluck food to share with all the families … Continue reading
Bacon is one of those volatile subjects, best discussed among the faithful. I will leave the various discussions among the faithful who abstain due to religious beliefs, the faithful who abstain due to cholesterol brainwashing by the medical industrial complex, the faithful who abstain due to knowledge of the agricultural industrial complex system of CAFO … Continue reading
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