expanding and experimenting
so our friend and mentor, verena, had this great idea that we should be able to use a bunch of 1-2″ sticks to make fence posts for deer fencing. here are the first few in the ground. i spent an hour pulling various pieces of already fallen wood out of the woods. i then watched […]
SPROUTS!
Seeds are already sprouting. Looks like the temperature in the “greenhouse” hovered in the 50’s all week. I arrived last night in the middle of a snowstorm and i turned on the greenhouse heater – we were conservative and wanted to monitor it for its first few days on so it was off all week. […]
Pets
Oh, that’s a delicious looking jar of vanilla-almond tea you’ve got there. What’s that you say? Not just tea? Kombucha? Next weekend is going to be badass. One good thing about only coming up on weekends in that there’s no watched-kettle syndrome with the ferments. I’m also feeding the sourdough starters for the first time […]
Post-Harvest Treatment of Veggies
Note to self – we need to get a copy of the USDA publication The Commercial Storage of Fruits, Vegetables, and Florist and Nursery Stocks. It’s supposed to be very good – accurate and complete (if it’s good enough for Eliot Coleman it’s good enough for me). I’m getting a lot of great tips from […]
