Mid-February Postcards

I had this huge long post I’ve been writing up all week but it’s still not ready and we’re still recovering from a house-wide head cold so I guess a few photos is all I’ve got this for this space this week.

It’s time to plant potatoes and so the field of pea greens is getting cut for people and animals to eat. These were a cover crop of Austrian Winter Peas and they taste exactly like a sweet pea to me. Mabel and the goats also love them.

Also, Ruthie turns five and Annabelle seven this month and I can’t see straight for the speed at which these days go by.

And who else has gallons and half-gallons all over their kitchen of mysteriously bubbling or soaking foods? Milk kefir, sprouting lentils, and soaking amaranth for porridge are in this shot on one of the days we actually got the counter cleaned off.

Are you planting, soaking, fermenting, or still wading through winter?

Update on Building the Addition

Work on the addition has continued, with plenty of help from many supervisors… some wearing cookie pajamas. Once the floor was on, we decided to go ahead and paint it to protect it from the rain. Then the walls went up. And they began, with the help of friends and neighbors, to put the floor…

Eating Through the Harvest

One of my favorite times of the day during these summer months is what I refer to as Dinner Pickin’ Time. It’s usually a bit past the hottest point in the day but I still don my sunhat. Sometimes I bring out a bowl and other times an apron is all you need for some…

Growing Seed Grains on the Homestead

One thing we have done a lot of in the garden is test patches. We’ve committed ourselves to large plantings of foods that we know work well here – cow peas, sweet potatoes, greens, etc. But we’re always hesitant to take up a lot of space with something we’ve never tried before. Instead, we’ve thrown…

Heating Up In The Garden

The transition from spring to summer became official in the garden when, about two weeks ago now, temperatures reached triple digits more often than not. Some years are just like that – a late frost and a month later it is 100 degrees most days until September. As you can imagine, most of the spring…

Sprouting Buckwheat

I’ve been on a kind of buckwheat kick for a couple of years now. I like to use buckwheat flour in some of the gluten-free sourdough loaves I created for Cultures for Health. We’ve eaten it in various breakfast recipes including this baked porridge. So, recently, I sprouted some buckwheat to throw into raw breakfasts…

Wrapping Up the Summer Garden

Hello, middle-of-August, where did you come from? I know you’re upon us because it’s pretty hot. But I’m confused because nobody seems to be dying of the summer flu (yet), and we’re actually planning ahead for the fall garden (for the first time). So maybe, middle-of-August, we’ll bid you adieu without too many tears this…

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Kathryn Richards says:

February 15, 2019 at 12:59 PM

We finally got winter with 18 inches of snow and everything closed up for about a week. It is now slowly melting away with temps from 30-40 degrees. But least we ce!ebrate too quickly, more is on the way come Sunday. Haha. We are not as busy as you, but it sure interrupted our lives.
Cynthia says:

February 20, 2019 at 6:26 PM

Look At Your Little Helpers, They Are All So Cute ! Yummy Stuff Going On Around The Homestead ! Love And Hugs !

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