No rain, so we’re starting to irrigate
With most of our crops planted, we're starting to mulch like mad. Heather, our part-time apprentice came over and she and Will spent the day mulching tomatoes and putting their cages on. They used...
It’s pepper plantin’ time!
Yesterday I went down to the basement to retrieve our pepper seeds from the big plastic tote that holds 1/3 of our seeds. (Do you see some obsessive behavior there?) We've got seeds in...
It’s still raining
Boy is it hard to get things done outside when it's raining all day, every day. Grump, grump, grump! I pulled our last carrots and found that the deer had gotten in the open...
The tulips are up!
More signs of spring up north. Yesterday I woke up to a musical sound. Wolves? Nooooo... It sounds like geese. It IS geese! I threw open the window and the air was filled with...
Q and A: rendering pig fat, canning mulberries, and source for weed-free hay
Rendering pig fat
Could you give me a rough idea of how many pounds of pig fat I will need to render down in order to end up with a dozen pint jars of lard?...