.jpg)
Stephanie was kind enough to do an interview with me as she features my spring cookbook on her site Keeper of the Home. Her questions cover everything from what inspires the recipes to what motivates our journey to agrarianism to what struggles we have with eating seasonally.
If you’re interested you can head over to read the full interview.
We’re still eating plenty of asparagus, lettuce, spring onions, and soon peas. How about you?
We’ve had numerous chick hatchings here on the homestead since we first started keeping chickens 2.5 years ago. It seemed like every time there were complications of one sort or another. Hens would get in the box with the broody hen and lay their eggs there, where we couldn’t get to them. We had snakes…
Three months ago I was looking through a little notebook I keep for jotting down recipes and meal ideas. In the pages I found Slow-Cooker Sprouted Ethiopian Lentils, Grain-Free Biscuits, and Cod Cioppino. During this time I was finishing up a mad dash of food preservation. The dehydrator was running non-stop, our refrigerator was filling…
photo credit This post was originally published in October, 2009 – a full two years before we arrived here on our land. It seems fitting to republish while we are hurrying to get as many seeds into the ground as we can. Previously in Homesteading: Part 1: Why Homesteading? Part 2: If You Eat it…
I’ve received quite a few books over the past few months on the various topics that interest me – mostly sustainability, gardening, and cooking. This is where I share some of the highlights from that bookshelf. And, if you haven’t read The Nourishing Homestead or the review we posted with author Ben Hewitt, I highly…
I actually had to go back and look at the date of my last post to see how old these birds are. It turns out it’s been just about a month since our last update and things have definitely changed. The first major change is that we got netting up over the whole chicken run….
One of our very favorite meals has always been a simple roast chicken. When we lived up north, we used to purchase a fresh pastured chicken weekly for our little family of four. That chicken stretched for several meals and made one of my very favorite foods: chicken broth. Times have changed quite a bit…
Comments are closed.
In Denmark ( N. Europe 😉 )
we are eating the last green asparagus, new peas, salad, new potatoes, onions herbs and the first amazing strawberries.
It has been rather hot and dry here all spring-(after a very cold and snowy winter) but the heat made my spinach, arugula and radishes finish very early. So now I am looking foreward to late August when I can make a late sowing of theese,
Cabbage and cucumbers re just around the corner- so is tiny beets.
Radishes, lettuce, radishes, spinach, radishes, and radishes.
I’ve got to figure out how to do the lacto-fermentation thing with radishes.
Luckily, I’ve got CSA food too, and they plant more than radishes!
I’m a little envious! The farmer’s market here doesn’t open till late May, so we never get the asparagus, peas and early lettuces aside from what we grow (and our asparagus is too young to harvest yet). We’re eating local blackberries, tomatoes, beets, squash, zucchini, cucumbers and Swiss chard this week, though.
I have been buying more fruits and vegetables. And the local strawberries are phenomenal!
My favorite vegetable that I recently started eating is kale.
http://faithfulsolutions.blogspot.com/