Sorry to be so late blogging!
We've been fighting against frost, which has been threatening nearly every day. We've been picking, husking corn, pulling in beans, and, lately, covering rare crops as we were under a frost advisory. Yesterday, our...
There is life after frost!
While much of our garden was killed by freezing, we are terribly happy with all we have. As another frost was forecast, we got busy and picked all we could: tomatoes (both ripe and...
We had a very sad weekend
On Friday, I noticed our baby goat, Nuevo, was getting an enlarged lower belly. I suspected a urinary calculi even though bladder stones are pretty rare in male goats so young. I called our...
Finally, I’m canning carrots
After three days of thinking "tomorrow I'll get to can carrots," it's finally happening. Yesterday I started out shelling various varieties of corn and getting them packaged up. Then, I noticed several varieties of...
We worked and waited all year and now it’s here — harvest
Since early spring and even before, we worked toward this season, planting tiny seeds, nurturing them, transplanting, tilling, weeding, watering, and worrying about our crops. We ducked a frost a couple weeks ago and...